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PT J
TI Mistaking plastic for zooplankton: Risk assessment of plastic ingestion in the Mediterranean sea
BT 
AF Fabri-Ruiz, Salome
   Baudena, A.
   Moullec, Fabien
   Lombard, F.
   Irisson, J.-O.
   Pedrotti, M.L.
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:1;5:1;6:1;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-HALGO-EMH;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
   DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAE, Institut Agro, Nantes, France
   Department of Coastal Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, the Netherlands
C2 UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   NIOZ, NETHERLANDS
SI NANTES
SE PDG-RBE-HALGO-EMH
UM DECOD
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 9.8
TC 8
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00795/90733/96319.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Marine plastic pollution;Tara Mediterranean expedition;Plastic to zooplankton ratio;Pelagos sanctuary;Zooplankton abundance
AB Floating plastic debris is a pervasive pollutant in seas and oceans, affecting a wide range of animals. In particular, microplastics (<5 mm in size) increase the possibility that marine species consume plastic and enter the food chain. The present study investigates this potential mistake between plastic debris and zooplankton by calculating the plastic debris to zooplankton ratio over the whole Mediterranean Sea. To this aim, in situ data from the Tara Mediterranean Expedition are combined with environmental and Lagrangian diagnostics in a machine learning approach to produce spatially-explicit maps of plastic debris and zooplankton abundance. We then analyse the plastic to zooplankton ratio in regions with high abundances of pelagic fish. Two of the major hotspots of pelagic fish, located in the Gulf of Gabès and Cilician basin, were associated with high ratio values. Finally, we compare the plastic to zooplankton ratio values in the Pelagos Sanctuary, an important hotspot for marine mammals, with other Geographical Sub-Areas, and find that they were among the larger of the Western Mediterranean Sea. Our results indicate a high potential risk of contamination of marine fauna by plastic and advocate for novel integrated modelling approaches which account for potential trophic transfer within the food chain. 
PY 2023
PD JAN
SO Science Of The Total Environment
SN 0048-9697
PU Elsevier BV
VL 856
IS Part.2
UT 000875324100006
DI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159011
ID 90733
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