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MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
卷 117, 期 1-2, 页码 448-455出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.081
关键词
Gut contents; Size; Functional groups; Feeding guilds; Human impact; Brazil
资金
- Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) [173/2012]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) [UID/MAR/04292/2013, SFRH/BPD/99747/2014]
Our aim was to quantify microplastic ingestion by fish assemblages in two tropical Brazilian estuaries and to evaluate whether biological and ecological factors influence the ingestion of microplastics by fish species. Of 2233 fish from both estuaries (from 69 species) examined in this study, 9% of the individuals (24 species) had microplastics in their gut contents. Microplastic ingestion occurred irrespective of fish size and functional group. The diet of fish species was analyzed based on prey items identified in the fish's full stomach contents and five feeding guilds were defined. Microplastics were common throughout all feeding guilds. Low (average ingestion values 1.06 +/- 0.30 items/total fish) but widespread occurrence among estuaries also indicates proliferation of microplastic pollution. Our findings highlight the need to focus on assemblage level studies to understand the real magnitude of the problem and emphasize the urgency of mitigation measures directed at microplastic pollution in estuarine ecosystems. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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