Plastic ingestion risk is related to the anthropogenic activity and breeding stage in an Antarctic top predator seabird species

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Ibañez, Andres Esteban, Morales, Lara Mariel, Torres, Diego Sebastian, Borghello, Paloma, Haidr, Nadia Soledad, Montalti, Diego
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; BREEDING CYCLE; BROWN SKUA; FEEDING NICHE; PLASTIC INGESTION; STERCORARIUS ANTARCTICUS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Tucumán; Esperanza; Morales; Hope Bay; Paloma; Ibañez; Antarc*; Antarctica; antarcticus; Brown Skua; Stercorarius antarcticus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/141854

During the last decades plastic pollution has become a common issue in marine environments. Studies on seabirds have focused on species that ingest plastics mistaken for prey or indirectly through their preferred prey or, on how foraging strategy influences this behaviour. We evaluated plastic inges...