Quantifying ingested debris in marine megafauna: a review and recommendations for standardization

JF Provencher, AL Bond, S Avery-Gomm… - Analytical …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic pollution has become one of the largest environmental challenges we currently face.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has listed it as a critical problem …

Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations

RT Barrett, K Camphuysen… - ICES Journal of …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Barrett, RT, Camphuysen, CJ, Anker-Nilssen, T., Chardine, JW, Furness, RW,
Garthe, S., Hüppop, O., Leopold, MF, Montevecchi, WA, and Veit, RR 2007. Diet studies of …

Plastic ingestion by Flesh-footed Shearwaters (Puffinus carneipes): Implications for fledgling body condition and the accumulation of plastic-derived chemicals

JL Lavers, AL Bond, I Hutton - Environmental Pollution, 2014‏ - Elsevier
To provide much needed quantitative data on the lethal and sublethal effects of plastic
pollution on marine wildlife, we sampled breast feathers and stomach contents from Flesh …

A review of methods for diet analysis in piscivorous marine mammals

GJ Pierce, PR Boyle - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 1991‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
The methodology for analysis of marine mammal diets may be thought of as a series of
choices; about the sampling regime, the type of sample, the processing of samples, the …

Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis

BD Hoenig, AM Snider, AM Forsman, KA Hobson… - The Auk, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Identifying the composition of avian diets is a critical step in characterizing the roles of birds
within ecosystems. However, because birds are a diverse taxonomic group with equally …

Clinical pathology of plastic ingestion in marine birds and relationships with blood chemistry

JL Lavers, I Hutton, AL Bond - Environmental Science & …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Pollution of the environment with plastic debris is a significant and rapidly expanding threat
to biodiversity due to its abundance, durability, and persistence. Current knowledge of the …

The trophodynamics of marine top predators: current knowledge, recent advances and challenges

JW Young, BPV Hunt, TR Cook, JK Llopiz… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
We review present understanding of the spatial and temporal diet variability
(trophodynamics) of a range of pelagic marine top predators, at both early and adult life …

Foraging behavior and food of seabirds

DA Shealer - Biology of marine birds, 2002‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Evolution has produced a vast array of morphological and physiological adaptations in
seabirds that enable them to exploit the ocean's food resources in myriad ways. As …

Trophic relationships among high Arctic seabirds: insights from tissue-dependent stable-isotope models

KA Hobson - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1993‏ - JSTOR
The measurement of stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon in tissues of marine consumers
can provide trophic-level information that is a time-integrated approximation of assimilated …

Seabirds from the poles: microplastics pollution sentinels

D Taurozzi, M Scalici - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
The Arctic and Antarctica represent two of the most inhospitable and poorly investigated
biomes in the world. Although polar regions are still perceived as some of the most pristine …