TBT contamination of remote marine environments: Ship groundings and ice-breakers as sources of organotins in the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctica

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Negri, Andrew ^a   Marshall, Paul ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Antifouling; Coral; Great Barrier Reef; Organotin; Polar; Ship grounding; TBT; Tributyltin

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING PAINT; HULLS (SHIP); MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOMETALLICS; REEFS; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTS;

ANTARCTICA; ANTI-FOULINGS; CORAL; GREAT BARRIER REEF; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANOTINS; POLAR; SHIP GROUNDING; TBT; TRIBUTYL TIN;

CONTAMINATION;

ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANTIFOULING; ICE BREAKER; MARINE POLLUTION; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA ICE; SHIPPING; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANTARCTICA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORAL REEF; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOULING CONTROL; LEACHING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEA ICE; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SHIP; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE MINIMIZATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 57149124473     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.06.009     Document Type: Review

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