ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
A quantitative risk assessment framework for mortality due to macroplastic ingestion in seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- A global ranking of the relative vulnerability of marine mammals to macroplastic pollution.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Modelling the cleanup of the North Pacific Garbage Patch based on 3 years of operational experience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Revealing the risk of macroplastic ingestion to marine wildlife.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Plastic ingestion has been documented in nearly 1,300 marine species, including every seabird family, marine mammal family, and sea turtle species. Acute mortality, due to obstruction, perforation, or torsion of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, has been confirmed via necropsy in all three taxa; however, quantitative risk assessment for macroplastic ingestion poses unique challenges, with risk more dependent on probability of discrete events involving diverse plastic types rather than cumulative exposure models (e.g., LC
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