Email this article Long-term environmental impact of an oil spill in the southern part of Onega Bay, the White Sea
- Authors: Andrianov V.V.1, Lebedev A.A.1, Neverova N.V.1, Lukin L.P.1, Vorobyeva T.Y.1, Sobko E.I.1, Kobelev E.A.2, Lisitsina T.Y.3, Samokhina L.A.4, Klimov S.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
- Aff2
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Russian Arctic National Park
- Issue: Vol 42, No 3 (2016)
- Pages: 205-215
- Section: Ecology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-0740/article/view/183620
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074016030020
- ID: 183620
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Abstract
Complex studies were carried out in the southern part of Onega Bay (White Sea) in the summer seasons of 2003–2006 and 2011–2013. These studies revealed the dynamics of oil pollution of the water area after an accidental fuel oil spill in September 2003 and its long-term adverse effects on organisms of different trophic levels of the coastal ecosystem (benthos, fish, and sea mammal populations) in the most polluted southeastern part of the bay. The deterioration of the status of the top trophic-level white whale population (a decrease in numbers) and the accumulation of oil hydrocarbons in tissues of benthic organisms are described.
About the authors
V. V. Andrianov
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Author for correspondence.
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
A. A. Lebedev
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
N. V. Neverova
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
L. P. Lukin
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
T. Ya. Vorobyeva
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
E. I. Sobko
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
E. A. Kobelev
Aff2
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Sevrybvod, pr. Chumbarova-Luchinskogo 46, Arkhangelsk, 163000
T. Yu. Lisitsina
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Leninskii 33, Moscow, 119071
L. A. Samokhina
Russian Arctic National Park
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Sovetskikh Kosmonavtov, 57, Arkhangelsk, 163000
S. I. Klimov
Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch
Email: vvandrianov@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000
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