Author(s):
Barreiros, João P. 
; Barcelos, João
Date: 2001
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1563
Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
Subject(s): Marine Turtles; Plastic Pollution; Azores
Document details
Plastic ingestion by a Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea from the Azores ...
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Science Ltd. 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). […]
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Science Ltd. 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). […]
Document Type
Article
Language English
Language English
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