The current situation of inorganic elements in marine turtles: a general review and meta-analysis

AA Cortés-Gómez, D Romero, M Girondot - Environmental Pollution, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Inorganic elements (Pb, Cd, Hg, Al, As, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Se and Zn) are present
globally in aquatic systems and their potential transfer to marine turtles can be a serious …

From Mexico to the Beagle Channel: A review of metal and metalloid pollution studies on wildlife species in Latin America.

A Di Marzio, SA Lambertucci, AJG Fernandez… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Emissions of metals and metalloids (Hg; Cd; Cr; Cu; Pb; Ni; Zn; Fe; Mn; As; Se) generated by
natural (eg, geothermal activity) or anthropic causes (eg., industry or mining) represent a …

Metal contamination as a possible etiology of fibropapillomatosis in juvenile female green sea turtles Chelonia mydas from the southern Atlantic Ocean

CC da Silva, RD Klein, IF Barcarolli, A Bianchini - Aquatic Toxicology, 2016 - Elsevier
Environmental contaminants have been suggested as a possible cause of
fibropapillomatosis (FP) in green sea turtles. In turn, a reduced concentration of serum …

Monitoring organic and inorganic pollutants in juvenile live sea turtles: results from a study of Chelonia mydas and Eretmochelys imbricata in Cape Verde

M Camacho, LD Boada, J Orós, P López… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite the current environmental concern regarding the risk posed by contamination in
marine ecosystems, the concentrations of pollutants in sea turtles have not been thoroughly …

Potential adverse effects of inorganic pollutants on clinical parameters of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): results from a nesting colony from Cape Verde, West …

M Camacho, J Orós, LD Boada, A Zaccaroni… - Marine environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
A large number of nesting loggerhead sea turtles (n= 201) were sampled to establish the
blood levels of 11 elements (Cu, Mn, Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni, Cr, As, Al, Hg, and Se). Almost all of the …

Baseline heavy metals and metalloid values in blood of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from Baja California Sur, Mexico

C Ley-Quiñónez, AA Zavala-Norzagaray… - Marine Pollution …, 2011 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution due to heavy metals is having an increased impact on marine
wildlife accentuated by anthropogenic changes in the planet including overfishing …

Biological and ecological traits rather than geography control mercury (Hg) in scutes of marine turtles from the Southwest Atlantic

CA Barrios-Rodriguez, MF Bezerra, N Ristau… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of sentinel species in monitoring programs for toxic metals such as mercury (Hg) is
essential to understand these pollutants' impact on the environment. For this purpose, it is …

Plasma levels of pollutants are much higher in loggerhead turtle populations from the Adriatic Sea than in those from open waters (Eastern Atlantic Ocean)

M Bucchia, M Camacho, MRD Santos… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we determined the levels of 63 environmental contaminants, including organic
(PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, and PAHs) and inorganic (As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Hg and Zn) …

Stress response markers in the blood of São Tomé green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and their relation with accumulated metal levels

IFC Morão, MFL Lemos, R Félix, S Vieira, C Barata… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metals are persistent worldwide being harmful for diverse organisms and having complex
and combined effects with other contaminants in the environment. Sea turtles accumulate …

Toxic elements and associations with hematology, plasma biochemistry, and protein electrophoresis in nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Casey …

JR Perrault, NI Stacy, AF Lehner, SK Poor… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Toxic elements (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, selenium, thallium) are a group of
contaminants that are known to elicit developmental, reproductive, general health, and …