Galapagos Islands : Marine iguanas die from trace oil pollution

Type of Publication: Journal article
Author: Wikelski, Martin; Wong, Vanessa; Chevalier, Brett; Rattenborg, Niels; Snell, Howard L.
Year of publication: 2002
Published in: Nature ; 417 (2002), 6889. - pp. 607-608. - ISSN 0028-0836
Pubmed ID: 12050651
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/417607a
Summary:
An oil tanker ran aground on the Galapagos island of San Crist bal on 17 January 2001, spilling roughly three million litres of diesel and bunker oil. The slick started to spread westwards and was dispersed by strong currents, so only a few marine animals were killed immediately as a result. Here we draw on the long-term data sets gathered before the spill to show that a population of marine iguanas (Amblyrhychus cristatus) on Sante Fe island suffered a massive 62% mortality in the year after the accident, due to a small amount of residual oil contamination in the sea. Another population on the more remote island of Genovesa was unaffected.
Subject (DDC): 570 Biosciences, Biology

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WIKELSKI, Martin, Vanessa WONG, Brett CHEVALIER, Niels RATTENBORG, Howard L. SNELL, 2002. Galapagos Islands : Marine iguanas die from trace oil pollution. In: Nature. 417(6889), pp. 607-608. ISSN 0028-0836. Available under: doi: 10.1038/417607a

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