ArticleScientific reports2019
Microplastics ingestion and heterotrophy in thermally stressed corals.
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- Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure.Coral reefs (Online) · 2025Article
- Presence of microplastics and microparticles in Oregon Black Rockfish sampled near marine reserve areas.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Plastic pollution of four understudied marine ecosystems: a review of mangroves, seagrass meadows, the Arctic Ocean and the deep seafloor.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Review
- Microplastics: impacts on corals and other reef organisms.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Article
- Microplastic ingestion by coral as a function of the interaction between calyx and microplastic size.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- No short-term effect of sinking microplastics on heterotrophy or sediment clearing in the tropical coral Stylophora pistillata.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Microplastics do not affect bleaching ofPeerJ · 2022Article
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- Microplastics impair growth in two atlantic scleractinian coral species, Pseudodiploria clivosa and Acropora cervicornis.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021Article
- Sea Anemones Responding to Sex Hormones, Oxybenzone, and Benzyl Butyl Phthalate: Transcriptional Profiling andFrontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Response of Coral Reef Dinoflagellates to Nanoplastics under Experimental Conditions Suggests Downregulation of Cellular Metabolism.Microorganisms · 2020Article
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Abstract
Rising sea temperatures and increasing pollution threaten the fate of coral reefs and millions of people who depend on them. Some reef-building corals respond to thermal stress and subsequent bleaching with increases in heterotrophy, which may increase the risk of ingesting microplastics. Whether this heterotrophic plasticity affects microplastics ingestion or whether ingesting microplastics affects heterotrophic feeding in corals is unknown. To determine this, two coral species, Montipora capitata and Pocillopora damicornis, were exposed to ambient (~27 °C) and increased (~30 °C) temperature and then fed microplastics, Artemia nauplii, or both. Following thermal stress, both species significantly reduced feeding on Artemia but no significant decrease in microplastics ingestion was observed. Interestingly, P. damicornis only ingested microplastics when Artemia were also present, providing evidence that microplastics are not selectively ingested by this species and are only incidentally ingested when food is available. As the first study to examine microplastics ingestion following thermal stress in corals, our results highlight the variability in the risk of microplastics ingestion among species and the importance of considering multiple drivers to project how corals will be affected by global change.
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