Preliminary hazard assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans to Yangtze finless porpoise in Dongting Lake, China

• Main Authors: Yang, Fangxing, Zhang, Qinghua, Xu, Ying, Jiang, Guibin, Wang, Yawei, Wang, Ding, Xu, Y, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, State Key Lab Freshwater Ecol & Biotechnol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: -hazard Assessment; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers; Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans; Yangtze Finless Porpoise; Environmental Sciences; Toxicology; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; WHALES DELPHINAPTERUS-LEUCAS; LAWRENCE-RIVER ESTUARY; HONG-KONG WATERS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; CHLORINATED PESTICIDES; STENELLA-COERULEOALBA; ATLANTIC COAST; DOLPHINS; CETACEANS; ACCUMULATION; Lawrence River; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/152342/8232

Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis), a protected endangered species, is the sole freshwater subspecies of finless porpoise, living only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China, and its appended lakes. Its population has decreased sharply to 1,400 b...