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OIL SPILL BIOREMEDIATION ON COASTAL SHORELINES: A CRITIQUE
Citation:
Venosa*, A D. OIL SPILL BIOREMEDIATION ON COASTAL SHORELINES: A CRITIQUE. Chapter 4, S. K. Sikdar, R. L. Irvine (ed.), Bioremediation Technologies, Volume III, Section II. Technomic Publishing Company Incorporated, Thousand Oaks, CA, 3:259-302, (1998).
Impact/Purpose:
To provide an extensive review of the literature on oil spill bioremediation.
Description:
The purpose of this chapter is not to provide an extensive review of the literature on oil spill bioremediation. For that, the reader is referred to Swannell et al. (1996), who have conducted the most exhaustive review I have yet to come across. Other reviews are also available (Prince, 1993: Leahy and Colwell, 1990; Owen, 1991: Lee and Levy, 1989a). Rather, it is my intent to critique how investigators have been misled by the improper use of inferential statistics and experimental design to support their contention that bioremediation enhances the removal of crude oil contaminating an impacted shoreline and to offer an approach that improves upon one's ability to convince the scientific community of the veracity and authenticity of field data when recommending response action.
