Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111386
Keywords
Arctic; Marine debris; Plastic accumulation; Plastic pollution; Seabird
Funding
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
- Northern Contaminants program [M-23]
- Acadia University
- Garfield Weston Fellowship in Northern Research by the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
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Plastic pollution ingestion by seabirds is an increasing environmental problem even in remote areas such as the Arctic, yet knowledge on plastic pollution ingestion by several Arctic seabirds is limited, making it difficult to assess trends. We examined plastic pollution ingestion by northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis), black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) and black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) in the Canadian Arctic to assess species-specific and temporal differences in plastic ingestion over ten years. Seventy-two percent of fulmars and 15% of kittiwakes ingested plastic, while guillemots and murres did not. The number and mass of plastic ingested by fulmars decreased between the two periods (2008 and 2018), but the frequency of occurrence of plastic ingestion did not change, although sample sizes were less than ideal. Future research with larger samples is recommended to reinforce these trends in plastic ingestion by Arctic seabirds.
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