Microplastic interactions with North Atlantic mesopelagic fish

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1214-1225

  Lusher, Amy L ^a   O'Donnell, Ciaran ^b   Officer, Rick ^a   O'Connor, Ian ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ingestion; myctophids; plastic pollution; trophic effect; vertical transport

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INGESTION RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; PLASTIC WASTE; TELEOST; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; VERTICAL MIGRATION; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

MYCTOPHIDAE;

EID: 84964757000     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsv241     Document Type: Article

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