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Feathers as a Tool to Assess Mercury Contamination in Gentoo Penguins: Variations at the Individual Level
Feathers have been widely used to assess mercury contamination in birds as they reflect metal concentrations accumulated between successive moult periods: they are also easy to sample and have minimum impact on the study birds. Moult is considered the major pathway for mercury excretion in seabirds....
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26352664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137622 |