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MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
卷 72, 期 1, 页码 244-249出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.03.017
关键词
Seabird; Plastic pollution; Bird health; Environmental impacts; UNESCO world heritage site; Chicks
资金
- Birds Queensland grant
- Central Queensland University
We present the first evidence of ingestion of plastic by seabirds from the southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia. The occurrence of marine debris ingestion in the wedge-tailed shearwater, Ardenna pacifica, on Heron Island was the focus of this preliminary research. Our findings indicate that 21% of surveyed chicks are fed plastic fragments by their parents, having ingested 3.2 fragments on average. The most common colours of ingested plastic fragments were off/white (37.5%) and green (31.3%). Ingested fragments had a mean size of 10.17 +/- 4.55 mm and a mean weight of 0.056 +/- 0.051 g. Our results indicate that further research is critical to understanding the extent of ingestion, colour preferences, and what impacts ingestion may have on these and other seabird populations in the GBR. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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