Finders information United Kingdom - 2020 : SNS Fulmar Study Report: FindersInfo_UK2020_batch4report
This document is an illustrated report for the surveyors in the monitoring program of plastics particles in stomachs of beached Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis). It contains short information and photos of stomach contents of individual birds. In 2020 nine corpses were collected, one of which c...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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Wageningen Marine Research
2022
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| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/finders-information-united-kingdom-2020-sns-fulmar-study-report-f https://doi.org/10.18174/571906 |
| Summary: | This document is an illustrated report for the surveyors in the monitoring program of plastics particles in stomachs of beached Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis). It contains short information and photos of stomach contents of individual birds. In 2020 nine corpses were collected, one of which contained no stomach due to scavenging. Occasional years of lower sample size are not a problem for the monitoring program although larger samples will increase potential for statistical analyses. Averaged values are looked at in the larger samples over 5 consecutive years. Over the 2016-2020 period, 98 stomachs of fulmars from the UK contained an average per bird of 23 particles and 0.16 g of plastic. |
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