A5007825913- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and fisheries research
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Marine and environmental studies
Wageningen University & Research
2007-2025
Geriant
2016
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands
2015
Ecosystem (Spain)
2011-2013
Research Institute for Nature and Forest
1996
University of Amsterdam
1985
Microplastic debris floating at the ocean surface can harm marine life. Understanding severity of this requires knowledge plastic abundance and distributions. Dozens expeditions measuring microplastics have been carried out since 1970s, but they primarily focused on North Atlantic Pacific accumulation zones, with much sparser coverage elsewhere. Here, we use largest dataset microplastic measurements assembled to date assess confidence in global estimates mass. We a rigorous statistical...
Fulmars are effective biological indicators of the abundance floating plastic marine debris. Long-term data reveal high in southern North Sea, gradually decreasing to north at increasing distance from population centres, with lowest levels high-arctic waters. Since 1980s, pre-production pellets Sea fulmars have decreased by ∼75%, while user plastics varied without a strong overall change. Similar trends were found net-collected debris Atlantic subtropical gyre, ∼75% decrease and no obvious...
In studies of plastic ingestion by marine wildlife, visual separation particles from gastrointestinal tracts or their dietary content can be challenging. Earlier have used solutions to dissolve organic materials leaving synthetic unaffected. However, insufficient tests been conducted ensure that different categories consumer products partly degraded in the environment and/or were not affected. this study 63 and 11 other items non-plastic debris tested. Irrespective shape preceding...
Plastic pollution is of worldwide concern; however, increases in international commercial activity the Arctic are occurring without knowledge existing threat posed to local marine environment by plastic litter. Here, we quantify ingestion northern fulmars, Fulmarus glacialis, from Svalbard, at gateway future shipping routes high Arctic. Svalbard fulmars does not follow established decreasing trend away human impact. Of 40 sampled individuals, 35 (87.5 %) had their stomachs, averaging 0.08 g...
Marine plastic pollution is an environmental contaminant of significant concern. There a lack consistency in sample collection and processing that continues to impede meta-analyses large-scale comparisons across time space. This true for most taxa, including seabirds, which are the studied megafauna group with regards ingestion research. Consequently, it difficult evaluate impacts extent contamination seabirds fully accurately, make inferences about species we have little or no data. We...
Studies investigating the effects of plastic litter on marine biota have almost exclusively utilised pristine materials that are homogeneous in polymer type, size, shape and chemical composition. This is particularly case for microplastics (<5 mm), where collecting sufficient quantities from environment use laboratory impacts studies simply not feasible. Weathered plastics collected show considerable physical differences to post-production consumer plastics. For this study, macroplastic was...
This study combines published datasets with unpublished data on plastic ingestion in several North Sea fish species. The combined dataset of 4389 individuals from 15 species allows the analysis spatial distribution and temporal variability uptake fish. Airborne fibre contamination was observed to be main contributor fibres encountered samples. number samples strongly related time needed process a sample, not individual fishes sample. Accurate correction for secondary possible, but...
Marine litter is a global concern with range of problems associated to it, as recognised by the Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). can impact organisms at different levels biological organization and habitats in number ways namely: through entanglement in, or ingestion of, items individuals, resulting death and/or severe suffering; chemical microbial transfer; vector for transport biota altering modifying assemblages species. threat not only marine species ecosystems but also carries risk...
Antarctic krill Euphausia superba ('krill') constitute a fundamental food source for seabirds and mammals, globally important fisheries resource. The future resilience of to climate change depends critically on the winter survival young krill. To survive periods extremely low production by pelagic algae during winter, are assumed rely partly carbon produced ice algae. true dependency algae-produced carbon, however, is so far unquantified. This confounds predictions stocks sea decline. Fatty...
For this study, the transfer of plastic additives to stomach oil northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) has been investigated. Procellariiform seabirds retain oily components their prey in theirs as a means store energy. A marine litter-derived microplastic reference mixture and separately polystyrene sample were added oils an experiment. total 15 additives, including plasticizers, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, flame retardants, preservatives identified original mixtures, monitored leachates....
Monitoring plastic in stomachs of beached northern fulmars for OSPAR's Ecological Quality Objectives (EcoQOs) has been incorporated into the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This paper aims to provide appropriate tools interpret monitoring results. MSFD requires a data-derived threshold value (Fulmar-TV) representing 'Good Environmental Status'. Such Fulmar-TV was calculated from near-pristine Canadian Arctic data where 10.06% exceeded level 0.1 g ingested plastic. is...