Microplastics in full view: Birds as bioindicators of Malta's coastal ecosystem health

• Main Author: Brauer, Dalton
• Other Authors: Louis F. Cassar, John J. Borg, Maria C. Papadakis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: JMU Scholarly Commons 2018
• Subjects: microplastics; waterbirds; bioindicators; Malta; Descriptor 10; Northern Fulmar; Animal Experimentation and Research; Biodiversity; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Law; Environmental Policy; Environmental Studies; Marine Biology; Ornithology; Fulmar
• Online Access: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/628; https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/context/master201019/article/1616/viewcontent/Dalton_Brauer.pdf

Plastic pollution has recently become a widely studied topic, yet research on microplastics has remained lacking for specific geographic regions. Microplastics are small plastics resulting from degradation or the dumping of raw material and can lead to deleterious impacts on the coastal marine envir...