A5025064301- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2015-2025
Centre for Marine Socioecology
2020-2025
University of Tasmania
2020-2025
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
2015-2024
Health Sciences and Nutrition
2018-2024
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
2021-2022
Walk Free Foundation
2022
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
2020
Charles Darwin Foundation
2020
North Carolina State University
2020
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...
Significance Plastic pollution in the ocean is a rapidly emerging global environmental concern, with high concentrations (up to 580,000 pieces per km 2 ) and distribution, driven by exponentially increasing production. Seabirds are particularly vulnerable this type of widely observed ingest floating plastic. We used mixture literature surveys, oceanographic modeling, ecological models predict risk plastic ingestion 186 seabird species globally. Impacts greatest at southern boundary Indian,...
Abstract Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem. However, its distribution in poorly mapped, and most of waste estimated to have entered from land unaccounted for. Better understanding how transported coastal marine sources crucial quantify close global inventory plastics, which turn represents critical information for mitigation or policy strategies. At same time, unique tracer that provides an opportunity learn more about physics dynamics our...
Cycloheximide and related glutarimide antibiotics have been shown to affect binding, transfer enzyme II-dependent movement, release of RNA from the donor site reticulocyte ribosomes, as well both initiation extension globin phenylalanine peptides. They inhibit binding deacylated tRNAphe ribosomes in absence enzymes at concentrations similar those that peptide initiation. These are below required for comparable inhibition or translocation peptidyl-tRNA acceptor ribosomal sites appear provide...
Millimeter-sized plastics are abundant in most marine surface waters, and known to carry fouling organisms that potentially play key roles the fate ecological impacts of plastic pollution. In this study we used scanning electron microscopy characterize biodiversity on 68 small floating (length range = 1.7–24.3 mm, median 3.2 mm) from Australia-wide coastal oceanic, tropical temperate sample collections. Diatoms were diverse group colonizers, represented by 14 genera. We also recorded...
Plastics represent the vast majority of human-made debris present in oceans. However, their characteristics, accumulation zones, and transport pathways remain poorly assessed. We characterised estimated concentration marine plastics waters around Australia using surface net tows, inferred potential particle-tracking models real drifter trajectories. The 839 recorded were predominantly small fragments (“microplastics”, median length = 2.8 mm, mean 4.9 mm) resulting from breakdown larger...
ESR Endangered Species Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 25:225-247 (2014) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00623 Global research priorities mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife A. C. Vegter, M. Barletta, Beck, J. Borrero, H. Burton, L. Campbell, F. Costa, Eriksen, Eriksson, Estrades, K. V. Gilardi, B. D. Hardesty, Ivar do Sul, Lavers, Lazar, Lebreton, W....
In recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in work that focuses on the amount and types of waste entering marine environment from multiple geographies around world. To date, however, are few reports about scale coastal oceanic waters Africa. address this knowledge gap, existing information was collated mismanagement can become debris Africa at continental scale. This paper identifying sources seeking solutions to mismanagement. Stories shared opportunities have arisen taking place...
Abstract Plastic pollution in the marine and coastal environment is a challenging restoration governance issue. Similar to many environmental problems, plastic transboundary therefore solutions are complex. Although unlikely return condition it was before “plastic era,” an example of challenge where successful stewardship would likely result healthier global oceanic ecosystem. We argue that holistic, integrated approach utilizes scientific expertise, community participation, market‐based...
Interest in understanding the extent of plastic and specifically microplastic pollution has increased on a global scale. Still one large piece overall puzzle currently lacks: how much found its way into deeper areas world's oceans? The deep-sea sediments remains poorly quantified, but this knowledge is imperative for predicting distribution potential impacts pollution. We quantified microplastics from Great Australian Bight using an adapted density separation dye fluorescence technique....
Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to health of the ocean. Anthropogenic debris travels across large distances is ubiquitous in water on shorelines, yet, observations its sources, composition, pathways distributions ocean are very sparse inaccurate. Total amounts plastics man-made shore, temporal trends these under exponentially increasing production, as well degradation processes, vertical fluxes time scales largely unknown. Present circulation models not able accurately...
As plastic production increases, so to do the threats from pollution. Microplastics (defined as plastics <5mm) are a subset of marine debris about which we know less than larger items, though they potentially ubiquitous in environment. To quantify distribution and change microplastic densities through time, sampled sediment cores an estuary Tasmania, Australia. We hypothesized that type, abundance microplastics observed would be associated with increasing production, coastal population...
Marine litter is a growing environmental concern. With the rapid increase in global plastics production and resulting large volume of that enters marine environment, determining consequences this debris on fauna ocean health has now become critical priority, particularly for threatened endangered species. However, there are limited data about impacts species from which to draw conclusions population anthropogenic debris. To address knowledge gap, information was elicited experts ecological...
Numerical modelling is one of the key tools with which we can gain insight into distribution marine litter, especially micro-plastics. Over past decade, a series numerical simulations have been constructed that specifically target floating based on ocean models various complexity. Some these include effects currents, waves and wind as well processes impact how particles interact including fragmentation degradation. Here, give an overview models, their spatial temporal resolution,...
Abstract Plastic in the marine environment is a growing environmental issue. Sea turtles are at significant risk of ingesting plastic debris all stages their lifecycle with potentially lethal consequences. We tested relationship between amount turtle has ingested and likelihood death, treating animals that died known causes unrelated to ingestion as statistical control group. utilized two datasets; one based on necropsies 246 sea second using 706 records extracted from national strandings...
Abstract Plastic marine debris pollution is rapidly becoming one of the critical environmental concerns facing wildlife in 21st century. Here we present a risk analysis for plastic ingestion by sea turtles on global scale. We combined distributions based ocean drifter data with turtle habitat maps to predict exposure levels pollution. Empirical from necropsies deceased animals were then utilised assess consequence plastics. modelled (probability ingestion) incorporating and exposure,...
Plastic production is increasing globally and in turn there a rise of plastic waste lost into the coastal marine environment. To combat this issue, an increase policies that target specific types (such as microbeads shopping bags). Given such anthropogenic have environmental impacts, reduce tourism income area result human health issues, identifying effective abatement imperative to reducing litter before it enters ocean. Within Australia, state local governments employ plethora policies,...
Plastic pollution has become the new millennium's tragedy of commons. This is particularly true with marine debris plastic issue, which seen significant global interest recently. There long-standing acknowledgement difficulty in managing commons, regulations, economic and market based instruments community-based solutions all having a role to play. We review issue context governance policy, providing examples successes, opportunities levers for change. discuss regulation, public perception...
Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found polluting the environment. We data from a 5-year (2018-2022) worldwide (84 countries) program identify brands on in environment through 1576 audit events. that 50% of were unbranded, calling mandated producer reporting. The top five globally Coca-Cola Company (11%), PepsiCo (5%), Nestlé (3%), Danone and Altria (2%), accounting 24% total branded count, 56 accounted more than 50%. There was clear strong log-log...