A comparison of plastic and plankton in the north Pacific central gyre.

By C. J. Moore, S. Moore, M. Leecaster, S. Weisberg. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2001

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Citations in the corpus

• Plastic Degradation and Its Environmental Implications with Special Reference to Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (2012, background): “Plastic particles collected in purpose-built trawl nets have been shown to exceed zooplankton levels during sampling from the neustonic layer of open ocean waters in parts of the North Pacific [9].”
• Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, background): “as the basic thermostatic industry feed stocks and abrasive plastic beads used to clean ships (Gregory 1977, 1978; Shiber 1979; Zitko and Hanlon 1991; Gregory 1996; Redford et al. 1997; Moore et al. 2001; Derraik 2002; Thompson et al. 2004; Reddy et al. 2006; Betts 2008; Moore 2008).”
• Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat. (2017, background): “High concentrations of plastics debris were firstly observed in the North Pacific central gyre (Moore et al., 2001) and the term “ocean garbage patches” has then been introduced (Kaiser, 2010; Zhang et al.”
• Plastic ingestion by mesopelagic fishes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2011, background): “The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre has one of the highest measured open-ocean concentrations of plastic debris (Moore et al. 2001).”
• Oyster reproduction is affected by exposure to polystyrene microplastics (2016, background): “(67) North Pacific Central Gyre >333 μm Fragments, lines, films 3.”
• Pollutants bioavailability and toxicological risk from microplastics to marine mussels. (2015, background): “Ingestion of microplastics has been demonstrated in various marine organisms with different feeding strategies; this phenomenon may negatively influence both the feeding activity and nutritional value of a plankton-based diet, particularly in those species which can not discriminate the food source ”
• Plastic ingestion by planktivorous fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre. (2010, background): “In 1999, Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) discovered that in the NPCG neuston plastics outweighed zooplankton by a ratio of 6:1 and averaged over 300,000 pieces per km(2) (Moore et al., 2001).”