Recent Studies on the Effects of Oil
Abstract
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has stimulated a surge in new research into the effects of oil. Although this new work has largely focused on species, oils, and conditions common to the Gulf of Mexico, many of the lessons can be reasonably extrapolated and applied to other situations and exposure scenarios. A synthesis of the large body of impact studies performed under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment has suggested that many of the effects determined across many levels of biological organization are conserved and common to many different taxa.
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