Heavy metal monitoring in stranded sea turtles along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 769-776

  Kaska, Yakup ^a   Çelik, Ali ^a   Baǧ, Hüseyin ^a   Aureggi, Monica ^c   Özel, Karen ^a,b,c   Elçi, Aydan ^a   Kaska, Arzu ^a   Elçi, Latif ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Voluntary Vet   (Turkey)

^c Naucrates   (Italy)

Author keywords

Green turtle; Heavy metals; Loggerhead turtle; Mediterranean; Stranding; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; HEAVY METAL; MARINE POLLUTION; STRANDING; TURTLE;

EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

AVES; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIIDAE; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; TESTUDINES;

EID: 4644255982     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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