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Title
  • en Physical and chemical effects of ingested plastic debris on short-tailed shearwaters, Puffinus tenuirostris, in the North Pacific Ocean
Creator
    • en Yamashita, Rei
    • en Takada, Hideshige
    • en Fukuwaka, Masa-aki
Accessrights open access
Subject
  • Other en Marine plastic debris
  • Other en Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
  • Other en North Pacific Ocean
  • Other en Plastic ingestion
  • Other en Plastic contaminants
  • Other en Short-tailed shearwater
  • NDC 452
Description
  • Abstract en We investigated the plastics ingested by short-tailed shearwaters, Puffinus tenuirostris, that were accidentally caught during experimental fishing in the North Pacific Ocean in 2003 and 2005. The mean mass of plastics found in the stomach was 0.23 g per bird (n = 99). Plastic mass did not correlate with body weight. Total PCB (sum of 24 congeners) concentrations in the abdominal adipose tissue of 12 birds ranged from 45 to 529 ng/g-lipid. Although total PCBs or higher-chlorinated congeners, the mass of ingested plastic correlated positively with concentrations of lower-chlorinated congeners. The effects of toxic chemicals present in plastic debris on bird physiology should be investigated.
Publisher en Elsevier
Date
    Issued2011-12
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48357
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.10.008
Journal
    • PISSN 0025-326X
      • en Marine Pollution Bulletin
      • Volume Number62 Issue Number12 Page Start2845 Page End2849
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