Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing

By C. Wilcox, E. van Sebille, B. D. Hardesty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Ecology

1. R. Phillips
2. M. Thiel
3. J. Croxall
4. B. Lascelles
5. C. Small
6. E. van Sebille
7. A. Shanks
8. Henri Weimerskirch

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. E. van Sebille
2. Ren Wei
3. W. Zimmermann
4. I. Paul-Pont
5. M. Thiel
6. Melanie Bergmann
7. K. L. Law
8. E. Zeng

In Pollution

1. E. van Sebille
2. Ren Wei
3. W. Zimmermann
4. E. Zeng
5. Melanie Bergmann
6. I. Paul-Pont
7. Da Chen
8. M. Thiel

Citations in the corpus

• Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution From Continental Coasts to Subtropical Gyres—Fish, Seabirds, and Other Vertebrates in the SE Pacific (2018, neutral): “, 1972; Ryan, 1987), and the number of affected species, such as seabirds (Wilcox et al., 2015), is continuously increasing.”
• Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum‐based plastics: how far are we? (2017, background): “Plastic pollution has deadly effects on marine mammals from ingestion or getting entangled in plastic debris (Derraik, 2002; Andrady, 2015e; Wilcox et al., 2015; Nelms et al., 2016).”
• More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean (2021, background): “Plastic pollution poses threats on aquatic life, ecosystems, and human health (5, 6).”
• The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “Furthermore, the plastic at the surface of the ocean likely has the largest impact on marine life (e.g. Wilcox et al 2015, Compa et al 2019), and large debris (e.g. abandoned fishing nets) can also be navigational hazards (Hong et al 2017).”
• Threats to seabirds: A global assessment (2019, background): “…which is global and increasing (Ryan et al., 2009; Kühn et al., 2015), and expected to affect virtually all seabird species in a few decades (Wilcox et al., 2015), is not yet identified as a cause of seabird population declines, with only one report so far of plastics causing a significant…”
• Interaction of toxic chemicals with microplastics: A critical review. (2018, background): “perforation and reproductive impairment (Derraik, 2002; Gregory, 2009; Moore, 2008; Wilcox et al., 2015).”
• Oyster reproduction is affected by exposure to polystyrene microplastics (2016, background): “The consequences of macroplastic debris for wildlife are becoming well documented (3).”