Microplastic and macroplastic ingestion by a deep diving, oceanic cetacean: The True's beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 199, Issue , 2015, Pages 185-191

  Lusher, Amy L ^a   Hernandez Milian, Gema ^b   O'Brien, Joanne ^a,c   Berrow, Simon ^a,c   O'Connor, Ian ^a   Officer, Rick ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c IRISH WHALE AND DOLPHIN GROUP   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atlantic ocean; Marine pollution; Microplastics; Plastic debris; True's beaked whale

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DIGESTIVE TRACT; MARINE ORGANISMS; MESOPELAGIC FISH; MICROPLASTICS; PLASTIC DEBRIS; TROPHIC TRANSFER; TRUE'S BEAKED WHALE;

MARINE POLLUTION;

MACROPLASTIC; MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; INGESTION RATE; MARINE POLLUTION; PLASTIC WASTE; WHALE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; BENTHOSEMA GLACIALE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHAULIODIUS SLOANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INGESTION; IRELAND; MESOPLODON MIRUS; NANSENIA; NONHUMAN; PLASTIC DEBRIS; SEA POLLUTION; WHALE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; DIVING; STOMACH JUICE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRELAND;

BENTHOSEMA GLACIALE; CEPHALOPODA; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON MIRUS; NANSENIA; ZIPHIIDAE;

ANIMALS; DIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; IRELAND; PLASTICS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WHALES;

EID: 84922369975     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.01.023     Document Type: Article

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