Long-term changes in the type, but not amount, of ingested plastic particles in short-tailed shearwaters in the southeastern Bering Sea

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 945-955

  Vlietstra, Lucy S ^a   Parga, Joyce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Plastic ingestion; Puffinus tenuirostris; Seabirds; Short tailed shearwaters; Subarctic Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC PRODUCTS; WATER POLLUTION;

SHEARWATERS;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

PLASTIC; SEA WATER; SHEARWATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

LONG-TERM CHANGE; PLASTIC WASTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INCIDENCE; INGESTION; NEUSTON; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCIDENCE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLASTICS; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

BERING SEA;

CICONIIFORMES; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 0036754218     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(02)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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