Fernandez Adolfo, Singh Asha, Jaffé Rudolf
Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Bldg OE 148, Miami, FL, USA.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2007 Nov;54(11):1681-91. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.08.007. Epub 2007 Sep 27.
About 30 studies from the published literature were reviewed to determine the pollution status regarding heavy metals and organic compounds of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR). The literature revealed that most studies were performed in the South and Central American Caribbean Region with sparse reports on the small island states. Collectively, the most frequently analyzed heavy metals were Pb, Cu, Zn, Fe, Cd, Ni, Mn and Cr while DDT and its metabolites were the most frequently reported organic pollutants. The samples which were analyzed vary in terms of sampling schemes, parameters and analytical techniques, as well as differences in data reporting presentation (i.e. dry weight versus wet weight, sediment fraction analyzed, or % lipids). These differences make meaningful comparisons of the available data very difficult. Furthermore, there is limited data available for most of these contaminants from the majority of nations in the WCR. Therefore, any attempt to create a regional scale assessment from contaminants data available in the open literature is limited by the scarcity of available information.
为确定大加勒比地区（WCR）重金属和有机化合物的污染状况，对已发表文献中的约30项研究进行了综述。文献表明，大多数研究是在南美洲和中美洲加勒比地区进行的，关于小岛屿国家的报告较少。总体而言，分析最频繁的重金属是铅、铜、锌、铁、镉、镍、锰和铬，而滴滴涕及其代谢物是报告最频繁的有机污染物。所分析的样本在采样方案、参数和分析技术方面存在差异，数据报告呈现方式也有所不同（即干重与湿重、分析的沉积物部分或脂质百分比）。这些差异使得对现有数据进行有意义的比较非常困难。此外，WCR大多数国家关于这些污染物的可用数据有限。因此，根据公开文献中可用的污染物数据进行区域尺度评估的任何尝试都受到可用信息稀缺的限制。
