Data Collection on Marine Litter Ingestion in Sea Turtles and Thresholds for Good Environmental Status

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May 18th, 2019

10.3791/59466-v

May 18th, 2019

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¹Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), ²Institute for Coastal Marine Environment-National Research Council (IAMC-CNR), ³EPHE, PSL Research University, UMR 5175 CE3FE, CNRS, UM, Univ P. Valery, SupAgro, IRD, INRA, Biogéographie et Écologie des Vertébrés, ⁴Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, ⁵Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas, Instituto do Mar/Okeanos, Universidade dos Açores, ⁶MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Universidade dos Açores, ⁷Muséum national d' Histoire naturelle (MNHN), ⁸Sea Turtle Research and Application Center (DEKAMER), Pamukkale University, ⁹Institute of Oceanografy Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), ¹⁰Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM), ¹¹University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ¹²INDICIT consortium

The protocol focuses on the collection of sea turtle samples, describing all the steps from the animal recovery and necropsy to the classification and quantification of ingested marine litter. Moreover, the representative results show how to use the collected data to elaborate the possible thresholds for Good Environmental Status.