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Long-term environmental impact of an oil spill in the southern part of Onega Bay, the White Sea

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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.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia

    V. V. Andrianov, A. A. Lebedev, N. V. Neverova, L. P. Lukin, T. Ya. Vorobyeva, E. I. Sobko & S. I. Klimov

  2. Sevrybvod, pr. Chumbarova-Luchinskogo 46, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia

    E. A. Kobelev

  3. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Leninskii 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    T. Yu. Lisitsina

  4. Russian Arctic National Park, pr. Sovetskikh Kosmonavtov, 57, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia

    L. A. Samokhina

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Andrianov, A.A. Lebedev, N.V. Neverova, L.P. Lukin, T.Ya. Vorobyeva, E.I. Sobko, E.A. Kobelev, T.Yu. Lisitsina, L.A. Samokhina, S.I. Klimov, 2016, published in Biologiya Morya.

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Andrianov, V.V., Lebedev, A.A., Neverova, N.V. et al. Long-term environmental impact of an oil spill in the southern part of Onega Bay, the White Sea. Russ J Mar Biol 42, 205–215 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074016030020

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