Incidence of plastic fragments among burrow-nesting seabird colonies on offshore islands in northern New Zealand

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 420-424

  Buxton, Rachel T ^a   Currey, Caitlin A ^b   Lyver, Philip O'B ^b   Jones, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flesh footed shearwater; New Zealand; Plastic pollution; Procellariiformes; Seabird colonies

Indexed keywords

FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER; NEW ZEALAND; PLASTIC POLLUTIONS; PROCELLARIIFORMES; SEABIRD COLONIES;

POLLUTION;

MARINE POLLUTION;

PLASTIC;

BURROW; COLONY; GYRE; MARINE POLLUTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLASTIC WASTE; SEABIRD; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; BURROW DENSITY; BURROWING SPECIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EUDYPTULA MINOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; INGESTION; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PELECANOIDES URINATRIX; PLASTIC DENSITY; PLASTIC INGESTION; POLLUTION AND POLLUTION RELATED PHENOMENA; POLLUTION MONITORING; PTERODROMA MACROPTERA; PTERODROMA PYCROFTI; PUFFINUS ASSIMILIS; PUFFINUS CARNEIPES; PUFFINUS GAVIA; PUFFINUS GRISEUS; SEA POLLUTION; SEABIRD; SEASHORE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; OHINAU ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WAIKATO;

PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS CARNEIPES;

EID: 84884134317     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.011     Document Type: Article

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