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MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
卷 85, 期 1, 页码 214-224出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.05.046
关键词
Northern Fulmar; Plastic; Cephalopod; Ingestion; Diet
资金
- Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge
- Dr. Earl and Ethel Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust
- Graduate Equity Scholarship
- Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Vertebrate Ecology Lab
Marine plastic pollution affects seabirds, including Pacific Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii), that feed at the surface and mistake plastic for prey or incidentally ingest it. Direct and indirect health issues can result, including satiety and possibly leading to inefficient foraging. Our objective was to examine fulmar body condition, identify cephalopod diet to species, enumerate and weigh ingested plastic, and determine if prey number and size were correlated with ingested plastics in beach-cast fulmars wintering in Monterey Bay California (2003, n = 178: 2007, n = 185). Fulmars consumed mostly Gonatus pyros, G. onyx, and G. californiensis of similar size for both years. We found a significant negative correlation between pectoral muscle index and average size of cephalopod beaks per stomach; a significant increase in plastic categories between 2003 and 2007; and no significant correlation between number and mass of plastic compared with number and size of prey for either year. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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