Ecological effects to benthic infauna from lingering oil 15 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill
By: Betsy Day ; for Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Contributors: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Publisher: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Benthic animals -- Effect of oil spills on -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- Physiological effect -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Marine sediments -- Sampling -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Prince William Sound (Alaska)
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Description: Benthic recovery was assessed at five pairs of intertidal stations, each composed of one oiled and one nearby unoiled station on Knight Island, Disk Island and Eleanor Island in Prince William Sound. No difference in development and survival of the larval mussel Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis was seen between the oiled and unoiled stations, but for the amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus survival at the oiled stations was 0%.
Notes: Author affiliated with Integral Consulting Inc.

"Restoration Project 040772."

"June 2006."

Includes bibliographic references (p. 29-31).

Final report.

Available also via Internet.

Funded by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

This item was harvested from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council web site:  http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/Store/Final_Reports/203.pdf in September 2006 for the Alaska State Publications Program; remote access available via StaticURL.