Fulmar Litter EcoQO monitoring in the Netherlands: update 2018

Uncovering the sub-lethal impacts of plastic ingestion by shearwaters using fatty acid analysis

“…Connors and Smith (1982) was one of the earliest studies to identify a negative correlation between ingested plastic and fat deposition in seabirds. Auman et al (1997) continued to explore fat scoring as an indicator for condition, a method that has been criticized for being subjective (van Franeker, 2004). This presents an opportunity to identify alternate techniques to determine body condition and justify morphometric measurements in this group of seabirds.…”

“…In some species, adipose deposition has been scored and compared to morphometric measurements to determine body condition (Auman et al , 1997, Cousin et al , 2015, Schultner et al , 2013). Application of these methods to seabirds has received criticism as some measures of condition are thought to be subjective (van Franeker, 2004). Chick growth can be highly variable due to the wide range of prey sources exploited and infrequent feeding of seabird chicks (Angel et al , 2015, Connan et al , 2005, Taylor and Konarzewski, 1989, Williams et al , 2009).…”

Fulmar Litter EcoQO monitoring in the Netherlands - update 2019

“…DNA but are extremely difficult to quantify in non-experimental situations (Koelmans et al 2015;Booth et al 2016;Gigault et al 2016;Liu et al 2016;Jahnke et al 2017;Mintenig et al 2018). Accumulation of marine plastic litter, including a 'soup' of microplastics, in all major gyres of the oceans (Moore et al 2001;Moore 2008;Law et al 2010;Maximenko et al 2012;Van Sebille et al 2012, 2015 and in deep-sea sediments and polar sea-ice (e.g. Obbard et al 2014;Fischer et al 2015;Cózar et al 2017;Munari et al 2017;Tekman et al 2017) (OSPAR 2008(OSPAR , 2009(OSPAR , 2010a(OSPAR , 2010b(OSPAR , 2015a (Trevail et al 2015), Atlantic Canada (Bond et al 2014), the Canadian Arctic (Mallory et al 2006;Mallory 2008;Provencher et al 2009;Poon et al 2017;Avery-Gomm et al 2018;Baak et al 2020) and the Pacific (Nevins et al 2011;Avery-Gomm et al 2012;Donnelly et al 2014;Terepocki et al 2017) and to explore the potential use of other marine species for ingestion monitoring as intended in the European MSFD (Bravo Rebolledo et al 2013;Foekema et al 2013;Matiddi et al 2017;Kühn et al 2020b).…”

Routekaart Zwerfafvalmonitoring Nederlandse rivieren

“…Ook kan afval leiden tot schade en afsterving van mangrovebossen 14 . Stormvogels die zijn gevonden op Nederlandse stranden hebben bijvoorbeeld gemiddeld 24 stukken plastic in hun maag 12 .…”