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ArticleScience advances2017

Comment on "Marine plastic debris emits a keystone infochemical for olfactory foraging seabirds" by Savoca

Gaia Dell'Ariccia, Richard A Phillips, Jan A van Franeker, Nicolas Gaidet, Paulo Catry, José P Granadeiro, Peter G Ryan, Francesco Bonadonna

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Article in Science advances, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gaia Dell'AricciaCentre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE - Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9768-0118
Richard A PhillipsBritish Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK.
Jan A van FranekerWageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2035-5007
Nicolas GaidetCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), UMR ASTRE, F-34398 Montpellier, France.
Paulo CatryMarine and Environmental Sciences Centre, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-3000-0522
José P GranadeiroCESAM-Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-7207-3474
Peter G RyanFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Francesco BonadonnaCentre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE - Montpellier, France.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In their recent paper, Savoca and collaborators (2016) showed that plastic debris in the ocean may acquire a dimethyl sulfide (DMS) signature from biofouling developing on their surface. According to them, DMS emission may represent an olfactory trap for foraging seabirds, which explains patterns of plastic ingestion among procellariiform seabirds. This hypothesis is appealing, but some of the data that Savoca

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BirdsPlasticsAnimalsEatingSmellWaste ProductsPlasticsWaste Productsdimethyl sulphideDMSolfactionplastic ingestionprocellariiformesseabirds

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PMID28782012
PMCPMC5489267

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