Impacts of debris on marine fauna occur throughout the marine ecosystems, with adverse
impacts documented on over 1,400 species; impacts can be divided into those arising from …

The intensive development of industry and human population results in large amounts of
different xenobiotic emitted into individual ecosystem components. As a consequence …

Pollution of the environment with plastic debris is a significant and rapidly expanding threat
to biodiversity due to its abundance, durability, and persistence. Current knowledge of the …

The world's oceans are under increasing pressure from anthropogenic activities, including
significant and rapidly increasing inputs of plastic pollution. Seabirds have long been …

Pollution of the world's oceans affects a wide variety of marine organisms and raises major
conservation concerns. Ingestion of plastic debris has increased since the 1970s …

The concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals were evaluated in
shallow sediments, water, fish and seabird samples from the Cispata Bay, Colombia. The …

Plastic ingestion by seabirds is a growing conservation issue, but there are few time series
of plastic ingestion with large sample sizes for which one can assess temporal trends …

The Derwent estuary, in south east Tasmania, is highly contaminated with heavy metals,
mainly due to past industrial pollution. This study sought to determine the extent of …

Background Over the past 20 years, many marine seabird populations have been gradually
declining and the factors driving this ongoing deterioration are not always well understood …

The presence of contaminants, including metals, in the environment is known to pose a
threat to both the health and life of organisms. Vanadium (V), whose numerous adverse …