Yaghmour Fadi, Samara Fatin, El Sayed Yehya, Mohammed Areej, Maio Elisa, Philip Susannah, Budd Jane, Els Johannes
Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre (Scientific Research Department), Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Heliyon. 2024 Aug 8;10(16):e35954. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35954. eCollection 2024 Aug 30.
This study reports the concentration of heavy metals in the tissues of stranded sea snakes that died as a result of exposure to an oil spill on the eastern coast of Sharjah, UAE. Given the limited occurrence of stranded sea snakes observed along Sharjah's eastern coast outside this spill incident, we are using strandings collected from the nearby Arabian Gulf coast of Sharjah to compare the levels of heavy metals in sea snakes affected by the oil spill against their non-oiled counterparts. The sample comprised 14 Arabian Gulf Coral Reef Sea Snakes ), 6 Yellow-bellied Sea Snakes (), and 4 Yellow Sea Snakes (). Overall, our results show significantly higher concentrations of Al, Cd, Pb, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn in sea snakes that were mired in oil.
本研究报告了阿联酋沙迦东海岸因接触石油泄漏而死亡的搁浅海蛇组织中的重金属浓度。鉴于在此次泄漏事件之外，沙迦东海岸观察到的搁浅海蛇数量有限，我们正在使用从沙迦附近阿拉伯湾海岸收集的搁浅海蛇样本，将受石油泄漏影响的海蛇体内的重金属含量与其未受油污影响的同类进行比较。样本包括14条阿拉伯湾珊瑚礁海蛇、6条黄腹海蛇和4条黄海蛇。总体而言，我们的结果表明，被油污困住的海蛇体内铝、镉、铅、铬、锰、铁、镍、铜和锌的浓度明显更高。
