Deposit- and suspension-feeding sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) ingest plastic fragments

By Erin R. Graham, Joseph T. Thompson. 2009

606 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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In Ocean Engineering

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. Colin R. Janssen
4. L. Van Cauwenberghe
5. F. Regoli
6. C. Avio
7. S. Gorbi
8. Johan Robbens

In Pollution

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. L. Hoogenboom
4. Colin R. Janssen
5. L. Van Cauwenberghe
6. C. Avio
7. F. Regoli
8. S. Gorbi

Citations in the corpus

• Plastic contamination in the decapod crustacean Nephrops norvegicus (Linnaeus, 1758). (2011, background): “, 2007; Moore, 2008) and are among the primary pollutants of surface waters, pelagic waters and the marine benthos (Graham and Thompson, 2009).”
• Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat. (2017, background): “…sea cucumbers (Holothuria sp.), sea urchins (Tripneustes gratilla) and mussels (Mytilus sp) feed directly on microplastics which may be partly excreted through the intestinal tract (Thompson et al., 2004; Graham and Thompson, 2009; Wegner et al., 2012; Kaposi et al., 2014; Avio et al., 2015a).”
• Oyster reproduction is affected by exposure to polystyrene microplastics (2016, background): “Effects of MP ingestion have already been studied in several filter-feeding species, such as mussels (14–17), sea cucumbers (18), lungworms (13, 19), and some zooplankton (20–22).”
• Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture (2017, background): “, 2015a) and deposit feeders, such as sea cucumbers (Graham and Thompson, 2009), annelids (Besseling et al.”
• Microplastics in freshwater systems: a review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs. (2015, background): “vertebrates that ingest microplastics include sea cucumbers (Graham and Thompson, 2009), mussels (Browne et al.”
• Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review. (2017, background): “…size, MP can be ingested by a wide range of marine organisms such as zooplankton, bivalves and worms (De Witte et al., 2014; Devriese et al., 2015; Graham and Thompson, 2009; Rochman et al., 2015; Sussarellu et al., 2016; Van Cauwenberghe and Janssen, 2014; Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2015) and by…”
• The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review. (2013, background): “The quantity of defecated microplastic particles was then enumerated (Graham and Thompson, 2009).”