Impacts of plastic ingestion on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Uruguayan waters
González-Paredes, Daniel (2024) Impacts of plastic ingestion on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Uruguayan waters. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
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Daniel González-Paredes examined impacts caused by plastic ingestion on green sea turtles in Uruguay. Highlighting Uruguay as a hotspot, registering the highest plastic accumulation among juvenile turtles, in which soft plastics led to fatal intestinal obstructions.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Copyright Information: | Copyright © 2024 Daniel González-Paredes |
| Additional Information: | Two publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are: [Chapter 1] Gonzalez-Paredes, Daniel, and Estrades, Andres (2021) Plastics Versus Turtles: An Overview of the Uruguayan Case. In: Nahill, Brad, (ed.) Sea Turtle Research and Conservation: Lessons from working in the field. Academic Press, London, UK, pp. 83-92. [Chapter 2] González-Paredes, Daniel, Ariel, Ellen, David, Maria Florencia, Ferrando, Virginia, Marsh, Helene, and Hamann, Mark (2021) Gastrointestinal transit times in juvenile green turtles: an approach for assessing digestive motility disorders. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 544. 151616. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2025 00:27 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310305 Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) @ 65% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4105 Pollution and contamination > 410599 Pollution and contamination not elsewhere classified @ 35% |
| SEO Codes: | 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1805 Marine systems and management > 180504 Marine biodiversity @ 60% 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1805 Marine systems and management > 180507 Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments @ 15% 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1802 Coastal and estuarine systems and management > 180201 Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems @ 25% |
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