Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure.

Cheryl Hankins, Danielle Lasseigne, Sarah M Davis, Kimberly Edwards, Jenny S Paul

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Article in Coral reefs (Online), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Cheryl HankinsUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8744-3311

Danielle LasseigneUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6821-764X

Sarah M DavisUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, ORISE Research Participation Program, Narragansett, RI, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-0505-1903

Kimberly EdwardsCSS, Inc., under contract to NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Fairfax, VA, USA.

Jenny S PaulUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8571-949X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coral reef declines have been documented since the 1980's from a variety of global and local stressors. Management resource tools are needed to preserve these fragile ecosystems from stressors, both known and unknown. Laboratory studies have shown microplastics (MP) to have negative effects on coral physiology, but their effects in a natural environment are not well understood. Thus, our primary objectives were to explore associations between MPs and coral reef attributes. We measured MP concentrations from sub-surface water and coral tissue samples from two Caribbean/Atlantic scleractinian coral species,

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Biological condition gradientCoralFloridaMicrofibersUSVI

Identifiers

PMID40546294

DOI10.1007/s00338-024-02596-4

PMCPMC12180944

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