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Plastic ingestion by a Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea from the Azores (NE Atlantic)
| dc.contributor.author | Barreiros, João P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barcelos, João | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-17T16:15:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-17T16:15:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-11 | |
| dc.description | Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Science Ltd. | por |
| dc.description.abstract | Plastic debris occur in considerable quantities throughout the worlds oceans (Dufault and Whitehead, 1994). These items may impact many marine species such as sea turtles, birds and mammals (Wilber, 1987; Laist, 1997). Ingestion of plastic debris is known from at least 27 species of cetaceans (Laist, 1997, Baird and Hooker, in press), seabirds (Spear et al., 1995) and sea-turtles (Bjorndal et al., 1994). Here we report on a case of plastic ingestion by an adult female of the leatherback sea-turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, that was accidentally caught off the southern coast of Terceira island (Azores). […] | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | BARREIROS, J. P., BARCELOS, J. (2001). "Plastic ingestion by a Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea from the Azores (NE Atlantic)". «Marine Pollution Bulletin», 42(11): 1196-1197. ISSN 0025-326X. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0025-326X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1563 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | por |
| dc.subject | Marine Turtles | en |
| dc.subject | Plastic Pollution | en |
| dc.subject | Azores | en |
| dc.title | Plastic ingestion by a Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea from the Azores (NE Atlantic) | en |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | United Kingdom | por |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 1197 | por |
| oaire.citation.issue | 11 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1196 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Marine Pollution Bulletin | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 42 | por |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |