Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) Trace Element (TE) concentrations of muscle
Trace element (TE) concentrations of juvenile Short-tailed Shearwaters collected on Great Dog Island, Tasmanian in 2017. We purchased 38 whole frozen Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings (approx. 80-90 days old) from harvesters on Great Dog Island in the Furneaux Group, Tasmania, Australia in late-Apr...
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University of Tasmania, Australia
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Online Access: | https://researchdata.ands.org.au/short-tailed-shearwater-concentrations-muscle/1449632 http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au:/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=b5c0c15c-c16b-436e-933f-89523e4d8a8b |
Summary: | Trace element (TE) concentrations of juvenile Short-tailed Shearwaters collected on Great Dog Island, Tasmanian in 2017. We purchased 38 whole frozen Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings (approx. 80-90 days old) from harvesters on Great Dog Island in the Furneaux Group, Tasmania, Australia in late-April 2017. We recorded standard bird morphometric measurements (mass (± 10 g), wing chord (unflattened and straightened; ± 1 mm), culmen (± 0.1 mm mm), head + bill (± 0.1 mm)). Ingested plastic items including micro-plastic (>1 µm) and visible macro-plastic (> 5mm diameter), from the proventriculus and gizzard were categorised by type and colour. |
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