ReviewAvian research2021
Birds and plastic pollution: recent advances.
Review in Avian research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Why do some bird species incorporate more anthropogenic materials into their nests than others?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Mechanism of Waterbird Diversity Succession and Its Contribution to Nutrient Loads in Chagan Lake, China.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Policy Gaps and Opportunities in Bio-Based Plastics: Implications for Sustainable Food Packaging.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Microscopic anthropogenic waste ingestion by small terrestrial European passerines: evidence from finch and tit families.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microplastic accumulation in various bird species in Turkey.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2025Article
- Gastric lavage may not be representative of total microplastic ingestion for a wild passerine bird.PloS one · 2025Article
- Quantification and characterization of microplastics ingested by mangrove oysters across West Africa.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- The Presence of Microplastics in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Song Thrushes (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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- Sublethal effects of early-life exposure to common and emerging contaminants in birds.Current research in toxicology · 2024Article
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- Diversity and abundance of birds in dumpsites of Afar region, Ethiopia: implication for conservation.BMC zoology · 2023Article
- Global face mask pollution: threats to the environment and wildlife, and potential solutions.The Science of the total environment · 2023Review
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Plastic waste and debris have caused substantial environmental pollution globally in the past decades, and they have been accumulated in hundreds of terrestrial and aquatic avian species. Birds are susceptible and vulnerable to external environments; therefore, they could be used to estimate the negative effects of environmental pollution. In this review, we summarize the effects of macroplastics, microplastics, and plastic-derived additives and plastic-absorbed chemicals on birds. First, macroplastics and microplastics accumulate in different tissues of various aquatic and terrestrial birds, suggesting that birds could suffer from the macroplastics and microplastics-associated contaminants in the aquatic and terrestrial environments. Second, the detrimental effects of macroplastics and microplastics, and their derived additives and absorbed chemicals on the individual survival, growth and development, reproductive output, and physiology, are summarized in different birds, as well as the known toxicological mechanisms of plastics in laboratory model mammals. Finally, we identify that human commensal birds, long-life-span birds, and model bird species could be utilized to different research objectives to evaluate plastic pollution burden and toxicological effects of chronic plastic exposure.
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