ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Microplastic exposure interacts with habitat degradation to affect behaviour and survival of juvenile fish in the field.
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- Adverse adult-onset and multigenerational effects in zebrafish (Danio rerio) developmentally exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2025Article
- Habitat degradation alters trait-based survival in a coral reef fish.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Well-Being of the Baltic Herring and Bycatch Fish Species from FAO Major Fishing Areas 27 According to Microplastic Pollution.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Are microplastics contributing to pollution-induced neurotoxicity? A pilot study with wild fish in a real scenario.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Effects of the Antidepressant Amitriptyline on Juvenile Brown Trout and Their Modulation by Microplastics.Toxics · 2022Article
- 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
- Micro-CT reconstruction reveals the colony pattern regulations of four dominant reef-building corals.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Animal contests and microplastics: evidence of disrupted behaviour in hermit crabsRoyal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs are degrading globally due to increased environmental stressors including warming and elevated levels of pollutants. These stressors affect not only habitat-forming organisms, such as corals, but they may also directly affect the organisms that inhabit these ecosystems. Here, we explore how the dual threat of habitat degradation and microplastic exposure may affect the behaviour and survival of coral reef fish in the field. Fish were caught prior to settlement and pulse-fed polystyrene microplastics six times over 4 days, then placed in the field on live or dead-degraded coral patches. Exposure to microplastics or dead coral led fish to be bolder, more active and stray further from shelter compared to control fish. Effect sizes indicated that plastic exposure had a greater effect on behaviour than degraded habitat, and we found no evidence of synergistic effects. This pattern was also displayed in their survival in the field. Our results highlight that attaining low concentrations of microplastic in the environment will be a useful management strategy, since minimizing microplastic intake by fishes may work concurrently with reef restoration strategies to enhance the resilience of coral reef populations.
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