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Claireaux, Guy; Theron, Michael; Prineau, Michel; Dussauze, Matthieu; Merlin, Francois Xavier; Le Floch, Stephane. |
The worldwide increasing recourse to chemical dispersants to deal with oil spills in marine coastal ecosystems is a controversial issue. Yet, there exists no adequate methodology that can provide reliable predictions of how oil and dispersant-treated oil can affect relevant organism or population-level performance. The primary objective of the present study was to examine and compare the effects of exposure to untreated oil (weathered Arabian light crude oil), chemically dispersed oil (Finasol, TOTAL-Fluides) or dispersant alone, upon the ability of fish for environmental adaptation. To reach that goal, we implemented high-throughput, non-lethal challenge tests to estimate individual hypoxia and heat tolerance as surrogate measures of their capacity to... |
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Palavras-chave: Oil-spill; Dispersant; Fish; Temperature; Hypoxia; Survival; Growth; Environmental adaptation ability; Darwinian fitness. |
Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00137/24831/23045.pdf |
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