Quantification of microplastics in the stomach content of krill in the Southern Ocean

• Main Author: Falcou-Préfol, Mathilde
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Mathilde Falcou-Préfol 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Elephant Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52182/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.3290fc47-ca3d-43d7-a792-e864a6afbd07

Microplastics (< 5 mm) have become ubiquitous in global oceans, posing a threat for a wide range of marine species. Recent publications have described the presence of microplastics in the water column and sediments in the Southern Ocean. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of microplas...