Increased plastic litter cover affects the foraging activity of the sandy intertidal gastropod Nassarius pullus

Marine debris: A proximate threat to marine sustainability in Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea

“…obs.) suggest these may be high for benthic infauna (Aloy et al, 2011;Uneputty and Evans, 1997a). In addition to direct impacts, the high debris loads potentially affects local human populations through reduced fishing efficiency (Nash, 1992) as well as through other social and economic costs (e.g.…”

Slime travelers: Early evidence of animal mobility and feeding in an organic mat world

“…Both methods assume the null‐hypothesis that a given dataset is randomly distributed, with Rayleigh's test assuming unimodally distributed data (Davis & Sampson, ; Hammer et al, ). Both have been applied to modern mobile organisms to test for preferred directions of movement (Aloy, Vallejo, & Juinio‐Meñez, ; Santos, Leonardi, Caorsi, & Grant, ). Relevant p ‐values for these statistics were computed using the past software (Hammer et al, ).…”

The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility, Proceeding of the 2012 MCI Symposium

“…We had the honor of spending time with her prior to our trip to Midway, and she suggested that we not consider the albatrosses as victims, but rather view them as paradigmatic heroes. A paradigm for all the other sea life endangered by plastics, ranging from planktivorous organisms (Boerger et al, 2010) through gastropods (Aloy et al 2011) to sea turtles (Lazar andGračan, 2011), dolphins (Denuncio et al, 2011), seabirds, including penguins (Brandão et al, 2011), and marine mammals that are more prone to plastic net entanglement (Laist, 1987). The albatross are trying to convey a message to us that we need to heed.…”