Animals
; Aquatic ecosystems
; Fish
; Marine biology
; Nutrition
; Biological impacts
; Condition factor
; Food sources
; Intertidal pools
; Marine environment
; Marine organisms
; Microplastics
; Feeding
; microplastic
; plastic
; unclassified drug
; water pollutant
; biological uptake
; diet
; feeding behavior
; fish
; intertidal environment
; plastic
; pollution exposure
; stomach content
; Article
; carnivore
; controlled study
; environmental impact
; feeding behavior
; fish
; herbivore
; intertidal species
; intertidal zone
; intestine
; marine environment
; nonhuman
; omnivore
; water analysis
; water pollution
; water quality
; animal
; aquatic species
; carnivory
; comparative study
; environmental monitoring
; herbivory
; stomach juice
; water pollutant
; Animals
; Aquatic Organisms
; Carnivory
; Environmental Monitoring
; Fishes
; Gastrointestinal Contents
; Herbivory
; Plastics
; Water Pollutants, Chemical
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Microplastics pollution is a growing global concern that affects all aquatic ecosystems. Microplastics in the environment can be in the form of fibers and/or particles, being the former the most abundant in the marine environment, representing up to 95% of total plastics. The aim of this work was to compare the content of microplastics among intertidal fish with different feeding type. Our results show that omnivorous fish presented a higher amount of microplastic fibers than registered in herbivores and carnivores. Moreover, lower condition factors (K) were found in omnivorous specimens with higher microplastic content. We hypothesized that the type of feeding resulted in different microplastic ingestion, with species with wider range of food sources as omnivores with higher rates. Futures studies carried out to evaluate the biological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms, and microplastics cycling on the marine environment should consider the type of feeding of the studied species. � 2017 Elsevier Ltd
Departamento de Ecolog�a & Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ecolog�a & Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Programa de Doctorado en Medicina de la Conservaci�n, Facultad de Ecolog�a & Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Centro de Investigaci�n e Innovaci�n para el Cambio Clim�tico(CiiCC), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tom�s, Ej�rcito146, Santiago, Chile; Departamento de Ecolog�a, Facultad de Ciencias Biol�gicas, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica, Santiago, Chile; Center for the Study of Multiple-drivers on Marine Socio-ecological Systems (MUSELS), Universidad de Concepci�n, Concepci�n, Chile; Fundaci�n MERI, Santiago, Chile
Recommended Citation:
Mizraji R.,Ahrendt C.,Perez-Venegas D.,et al. Is the feeding type related with the content of microplastics in intertidal fish gut?[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,116(2018-01-02)