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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Autores principales: Pedro, Sara, Xavier, José C., Tavares, Sílvia, Trathan, Phil N., Ratcliffe, Norman, Paiva, Vitor H., Medeiros, Renata, Pereira, Eduarda, Pardal, Miguel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
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

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