Ecological effects to benthic infauna from lingering oil 15 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Benthic recovery was assessed at five pairs of intertidal stations, each composed of one oiled and one nearby unoiled station on Knight Island, Disk Island and Eleanor Island in Prince William Sound. No difference in development and survival of the larval mussel Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis was seen between the oiled and unoiled stations, but for the amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus survival at the oiled stations was 0%.