Concentrations of trace elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu, Fe, and Se) in different organs and
tissues (liver, kidney, muscle tissue, spleen, heart, lung, and fat tissue) of loggerhead turtles …

Trace elements (including heavy metals) can negatively affect the environment and the
health of living beings. Biomonitoring is a transdisciplinary tool to evaluate this pollution type …

The aim of this work was to determine the concentrations of some essential and toxic
elements in the muscle of ten species of commercial fish consumed in Portugal. We …

Offal or edible and inedible animal by-products comprise a wide variety of products like the
skin, blood, bones, meat trimmings and mechanically separated meat, fatty tissues, horns …

Anthropogenic contaminants in the marine environment often biodegrade slowly,
bioaccumulate in organisms, and can have deleterious effects on wildlife immunity, health …

Mercury (total and organic), cadmium, lead, copper, iron, manganese, selenium and zinc
concentrations were measured in different organs of 6 different cetacean species stranded …

Marine turtles are considered good sentinel species for environmental assessment because
of their long lifespan, feeding ecology, habitat use and migratory nature. In the present study …

The common dolphin is the second most abundant cetacean species in the North-east
Atlantic, with a wide-ranging distribution and is, potentially, impacted by a wide variety of …

In order to evaluate the use of biopsy samples as non-destructive tool for assessing trace
element concentrations in small cetaceans, the concentrations of 14 trace elements were …

Top marine predators present high mercury concentrations in their tissues due to
biomagnification in the marine food chain. This study reports mercury (Hg) and selenium …