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Polychlorinated biphenyls and p,p’-DDE in loggerhead and green postyearling Atlantic sea turtles

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Date Issued:
1983
Title: Polychlorinated biphenyls and p,p’-DDE in loggerhead and green postyearling Atlantic sea turtles.
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Name(s): McKim, James M., Jr., creator
Johnson, Kenneth L., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1983
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Extent: 9 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3176716 (digitool), FADT3176716 (IID), fau:5860 (fedora), 10.1007/BF01608766 (doi)
Note(s): The Green (Chelonia mydas) and Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles are classified as endangered and threatened species respectively (CLARK & KRYNITSKY 1980). ' The Green sea turtle has a distribution in the Atlantic which ranges from New England to Mardel Plata and Necochea Argentina and from the English Channel to South Africa (HIRTH 1971; STERNBERG 1981; HUGHES 1974; and BLEAKNEY 1967).
This manuscript is an author version with the final publicationavailable at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: McKim, J. M., Jr., & Johnson, K. L. (1983). Polychlorinated biphenyls and p,p’-DDE in loggerhead and green postyearling Atlantic seaturtles. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 31(1), 53-60. doi:10.1007/BF01608766
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #331.
Subject(s): Sea turtles
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Green turtle
Loggerhead turtle
Chelonia mydas
Caretta caretta
Pesticides
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3176716
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01608766
Restrictions on Access: ©1983 Springer-Verlag
Host Institution: FAU