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Guiana Dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) as Marine Ecosystem Sentinels: Ecotoxicology and Emerging Diseases

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 228

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Historically, human activities have impacted cetacean populations; such activities have included commercial fishing operations, overexploitation of marine species, habitat degradation, and commercial harvesting. As a result, many species are now classified as being threatened (Gulland and Hall 2007; Sherman 2000). Additionally, most species are exposed to anthropogenic contaminants, even those inhabiting areas far from human activities (Aono et al. 1997; Bard 1999). Such exposure may lead to health problems, such as impairment of immunological resistance, increased susceptibility to infectious diseases, and reduced reproductive fitness (Ross and Birnbaum 2003; Tanabe 2002).

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We would like to thank Leonardo Flach for permission to use figure 1 and we gratefully acknowledge the team involved with GEMM-Lagos (Grupo de Estudos de Mamíferos Marinhos da Região dos Lagos). Thanks go to Dr. Sergio Koifman, Dr. Rosalina Koifman, Dr. Paulo Barrocas, Dr. Frederico Peres, and Dr. Armando Meyer (All of the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública—ENSP/FIOCRUZ) for their encouragement to write this paper. Special thanks go to Anne Marie L. S. F. de Moura. The first author thanks the support of Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro—FAPERJ (Process no. E-26/151.184/2007). Thanks to L. Flach, from Projeto Boto-cinza, who kindly contributed with the photo of a group of Guiana dolphins presented in figure 1.

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de Moura, J.F., Hauser-Davis, R.A., Lemos, L., Emin-Lima, R., Siciliano, S. (2014). Guiana Dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) as Marine Ecosystem Sentinels: Ecotoxicology and Emerging Diseases. In: Whitacre, D. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 228. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01619-1_1

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