Keywords

Environmental Toxicology, Wildlife Health, Mercury (Hg) Contamination, DDT Pesticide Impacts, Plastic Pollution, Climate Change Effects, Terrestrial Birds, Marine Birds, Estuarine Mammals, Marine Mammals, Bioaccumulation, Biomagnification, Endocrine Disruption, Habitat Degradation, Ecological Risk Assessment, Conservation Biology, Ecosystem Health, ,Anthropogenic Stressors, Wildlife Monitoring, Biodiversity Protection

Environmental Stressors and Wildlife Health: Impacts on Birds and Mammals

authored by: Golam Kibria
ISBN: 9789372190502 | Binding: Hardback | Pages: 726 | Language: English | Copyright: 2025
Length: 22.9 mm | Breadth: 15.2 mm | Height: 2.440 mm | Imprint: NIPA | Weight: 0.700 GMS
USD 120.00 USD 108.00
 
This book will be available from 18-Feb-2026

This book, “Environmental Stressors and Wildlife Health: Impacts on Birds and Mammals", synthesises global data and information on birds and mammals (with an emphasis on marine birds and marine mammals). The impacts of two legacy pollutants (Hg, DDT) and two emerging pollutants (Plastics and Climate change/CO2) on birds and mammals were collected, collated, analysed, interpreted, and synthesised. It documented the location/ country and continent-wide (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America) species impacted by pollution. The impacts of pollutants are assessed in light of taxonomy, species affected, feeding habits, concentration detected, location/country, sex, age, IUCN conservation status, the toxic threshold value and sub-lethal and lethal effects. This book reveals that Hg, DDT, plastics and climate change (CO2) have impacted and will impact birds and mammals across the seven continents.

Expert  Comments
Pollution Impacts on Wildlife (Birds & Mammals) provides a comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationship between pollution and wildlife.
Dr. Parappurath Abdul Azeez, Director (former), Sálim Ali Center for Ornithology & Natural History,

India. Visiting Faculty, Department of Environmental Management, Bharathidasan University, India.
This book is a welcome addition to researchers who would like to pursue their research on pollution's impact on wildlife and biodiversity. 

Prof Dr. Joseph Jimu Baloyi, Department of Animal Science, University of Venda, South Africa.

This book comprehensively synthesizes global data on the effects of mercury, DDT, plastics, and climate change (CO2) on marine birds and mammals across seven continents. 
Prof. Dr RUAN Yuefei Phoebe, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 

Dr Golam Kibria is a global scientist for the Artificial Mussel (AM) Pollution Watch Program Australia. He planned/ led pollution risk assessment (heavy metals risks to biota, water quality, human health, and livelihoods) in Australia, Bangladesh, Greece, Myanmar, Russia, South Korea, and Sri Lanka (as a Lead Scientist of the Global AM Pollution Watch Program). As a Senior Environmental Scientist, Dr Kibria managed cutting-edge research on threats and risks posed by pesticides to biota, irrigation and drinking water, ecosystems, and human health in Australia (in collaboration with Federal, State and Regional Government Departments). In addition, he served as Freshwater Pollution Scientist, Environmental Impact Assessment Specialist, Environment and Waste Officer, and Climate Change Scientist in Australia. He has been a Guest Editor in a special issue of Discover Toxicology Journal of Springer Nature, London (Toxicological Impacts of Microplastics in Freshwater Ecosystems). He has published six technical books on chemicals, climate change and pollution. Furthermore, Dr Kibria was a peer-reviewer of 25 International journal papers (Elsevier's, Springer) and an Adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Recently, he has been associated with assessing pollution impacts on wildlife, some of which are listed below.
Key wildlife and pollution-related research carried out by Dr Kibria includes the following: i) Contamination of coastal and marine bird species with plastics: Global analysis and synthesis; ii) Contamination of estuarine and marine mammals with toxic mercury (Hg): Global analysis and synthesis; 
iii) DDT contamination of marine mammals: Regional analysis and synthesis; iv) Climate Change Impacts on Bird Biodiversity: Global Analysis and Synthesis; v) Impacts of microplastic on fisheries and seafood security — Global analysis and synthesis vi) Climate change impacts on pollutants mobilization and interactive effects of climate change and pollutants on toxicity and bioaccumulation of pollutants in estuarine and marine biota and linkage to seafood security.
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Section 01.Birds

Chapter 01. Heavy Metal (Hg) Impacts on Terrestrial and Inland Birds
Chapter 02. Heavy Metal (Hg) Impacts on Coastal and Marine birds;
Chapter 03. Pesticide (DDT) Impacts on Terrestrial and Inland Birds
Chapter 04. Pesticide (DDT) Impacts on Coastal and Marine Birds
Chapter 05. Plastic Impacts on Coastal and Marine Birds
Chapter 06. Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial and Aquatic Birds

Section 02:Mammals

Chapter 07. Heavy Metal (Hg) Impacts on Terrestrial mammals
Chapter 08. Heavy Metal (Hg) Impacts on Estuarine and Marine Mammals
Chapter 09. Pesticide (DDT) Impacts on Terrestrial Mammals
Chapter 10. Pesticide (DDT) Impacts on Estuarine and Marine Mammals
Chapter 11. Plastic Impacts on Estuarine and Marine Mammals
Chapter 12. Climate Change Impacts on Estuarine and Marine Mammals

 
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