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Variability of prey preferences and uptake of anthropogenic particles by juveni...
Müller, Carolin; Erzini, Karim; Dudeck, Tim; Cruz, Joana; Corona, Luana Santos; Abrunhosa, Felipe; Afonso, Carlos; Mateus, Miguel Ângelo FrancoMarine plastic litter, originating from land-based sources, enters the marine environment by passing through coastal ecosystems such as lagoons and estuaries. As early life history stages (ELHS) of many commercially important fish species rely on these transitional areas as nursery grounds, we hypothesized that they encounter a spatial gradient of habitat quality and pollution from inner to outer parts of their...
Assessing microplastic uptake and impact on omnivorous juvenile white seabream ...
Müller, Carolin; Erzini, Karim; Teodosio, Maria; Pousão-Ferreira, Pedro; Baptista, Vânia; Ekau, WernerPrevious laboratory feeding experiments, representing the state-of-the-art methodology to investigate micro-plastic (MP) ingestion and its impact for fish, tend to disregard both the significance of applying realistic MP densities and the potential relevance of biofilm-coating for ingestion probability. This experiment assessed the uptake of either pristine or biofilm-coated MP particles and the physiological i...