Using Age to Assess Retention Time of Ingested Plastic in Seabirds

• Main Authors: Nania, Tessa G., Shugart, Gary, Hodum, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sound Ideas 2018
• Subjects: Plastic; seabirds; pollution; Science and Mathematics; Environmental Health; Fulmar; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar
• Online Access: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/319; https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1609&context=summer_research

For the past 30 years, plastic pollution research has used plastic ingested and retain in seabirds’ gastrointestinal (GIT) tract as indicators of pollution on different spatial and temporal scales. Types and size of plastic found in birds’ stomachs were used to determine pollution types and severity...