1. Trace metals in limpets (Patella sp) from the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands)
- Author
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Luis Javier Galindo, X. Rius, F. Garcia-Montelongo, Carlos Díaz, and Larrechi Ms
- Subjects
biology ,Ecology ,Range (biology) ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Spectrophotometry, Atomic ,Trace element ,General Medicine ,Patella piperata ,Patella sp ,Toxicology ,biology.organism_classification ,Body weight ,Pollution ,Trace Elements ,Oceanography ,Mollusca ,Gastropoda ,Atlantic Islands ,Animals ,Regression Analysis ,Trace metal ,Seasons ,Invertebrate - Abstract
The present paper examines the relationships between trace metal contents and wet body weight of limpets, as well as the intermetallic relationships for a wide range of limpets collected at three locations along the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Principal component analysis and Ward's agglomerative methods of data analysis available in the pattern recognition packages ARTHUR and CLUSTAN were applied in order to show the overall structure of the data in multidimensional space.
- Published
- 1992