Plastics and waterbirds in Brazil: a review of ingestion, nest materials and entanglement reveals substantial knowledge gaps and opportunities for research

NW Daudt, L Bugoni, GT Nunes - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is an increasing global problem, especially in aquatic environments. From
invertebrates to vertebrates, many aquatic species have been affected by plastic pollution …

How natural and anthropogenic factors should drive microplastic behavior and fate: The scenario of Brazilian urban freshwater

FF Sodré, IM Arowojolu, MC Canela, RS Ferreira… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Brazil maintains its position at the top of the global ranking of plastic producers, yet recycling
efforts have been incipient. Recent data reveals an annual production of approximately 14 …

Ingested plastic in a diving seabird, the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), in the eastern Canadian Arctic

JF Provencher, AJ Gaston, ML Mallory, PD O'hara… - Marine Pollution …, 2010 - Elsevier
Plastic debris has become ubiquitous in the marine environment and seabirds may ingest
debris which can have deleterious effects on their health. In the North Atlantic Ocean …

Impacts of climate variation and potential effects of climate change on South American seabirds–a review

P Quillfeldt, JF Masello - Marine Biology Research, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The coastal and oceanic waters around the South American coasts provide rich foraging
grounds for breeding and wintering seabirds, but there is growing concern that climate …

Geometry of nutrition in field studies: an illustration using wild primates

D Raubenheimer, GE Machovsky-Capuska… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Nutritional geometry has shown the benefits of viewing nutrition in a multidimensional
context, in which foraging is viewed as a process of balancing the intake and use of multiple …

Evidence for increased ingestion of plastics by northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in the Canadian Arctic

JF Provencher, AJ Gaston… - Marine pollution …, 2009 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Marine plastic debris floating in the oceans is a worldwide problem. When ingested by
seabirds it may cause starvation and reduced growth, as well as more subtle effects that can …

Lipids and fatty acids in some mesopelagic fish species: General characteristics and peculiarities of adaptive response to deep-water habitat

VP Voronin, DV Artemenkov, AM Orlov… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The lipid and fatty acid composition of muscles of mesopelagic fish species Lampanyctus
macdonaldi, Bathylagus euryops, Serrivomer beanii, Scopelogadus beanii in the Irminger …

High frequency of plastic ingestion in procellariiform seabirds (albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters) in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

L Gallo, PP Serafini, RET Vanstreels, LL Tamini… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ocean pollution by plastics is a growing concern for marine wildlife conservation, and
seabirds are particularly prone to ingest plastics. We report baseline information on plastic …

Incidence of plastic debris in Sooty Tern nests: A preliminary study on Trindade Island, a remote area of Brazil

E de Souza Petersen, L Krüger, A Dezevieski… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Plastic is abundant in the oceans, reaching pelagic zones away from continents. Here we
present the first recordings of plastic used as nest material in Sooty Tern nests, on a remote …

Marine debris ingestion by albatrosses in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

S Jiménez, A Domingo, A Brazeiro, O Defeo… - Marine Pollution …, 2015 - Elsevier
Plastics and other marine debris affect wildlife through entanglement and by ingestion. We
assessed the ingestion of marine debris by seven albatross species in the southwest Atlantic …