Journal article
Exploring the pathology of liver, kidney, muscle, and stomach of fledgling seabirds associated with plastic ingestion
PS Puskic, R Slocombe, R Ploeg, L Roman, MA Lea, I Hutton, AR Bridle
Journal of Hazardous Materials | ELSEVIER | Published : 2024
Abstract
There remain significant gaps in knowledge about ‘sub-lethal’ impacts of plastic ingestion, particularly chronic impacts on cells, tissues, or organs. Few studies have applied traditional animal health tools, such as histopathology, to assess physiological damage to wildlife, with fewer still providing information on the dosage or exposure to plastics needed to elicit negative effects. Our study seeks to investigate a common hypothesis in plastic pollution research; that an increasing plastics burden will have an impact on an animal's health, examining two wild species with high levels of environmental exposure to plastic through their diet. Here we assess the histopathology of the muscle, u..
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We acknowledge the muwinina, palawa/pakana as the original custodians of the lands of which this study took place, lutruwita/Tasmania. We pay our respects to their elders; past, present, and to those who did not reach elder status, and in particular the Indigenous muttonbirding community who provided yula samples for this study. Thanks to E. Dobson, C. Santos, A. and R. Marshall for their advice and S. Seah, J. Lavers, and A. Bond for assistance in the field. We thank the Lord Howe Island board, the Lord Howe Island Museum and the Lord Howe Island community for their engagement and assistance throughout this project. Funding for this project was provided by Bird Life NSW research fund, the Australian Geographic Society, the Australian Society for Parasitology, the Australian Wildlife Society student grant 2018, the Detached Foundation, The Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment & The Ecological Society of Australia. This work would not have been possible without the guidance of M. Leef, M. Dang, F. Ferreria, and K. Jantawongsri to whom we are very grateful. We are grateful to the re-visions from S. Smith and K. Sheehan who reviewed an early version of this manuscript as part of the lead author's PhD thesis. Special thanks to Tess Campbell and Sam Mountford, artistic col-laborators on this project, producing the short film, 'On The Shoreline'. Presented as Boundaries by Contemporary Art Tasmania in association with MONA FOMA. This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania and Screen Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts. The Boundaries installation was built by Stuart Houghton with Alex Hullah, with sound design by Jon Smeathers, image support by Jason James, images by Remi Chauvin, sound by Callum Cusick, performances by PONY CAM and curated by Lucy Bleach.r Parasitology, the Australian Wildlife Society student grant 2018, the Detached Foundation, The Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment & The Ecological Society of Australia. This work would not have been possible without the guidance of M. Leef, M. Dang, F. Ferreria, and K. Jantawongsri to whom we are very grateful. We are grateful to the re-visions from S. Smith and K. Sheehan who reviewed an early version of this manuscript as part of the lead author's PhD thesis. Special thanks to Tess Campbell and Sam Mountford, artistic col-laborators on this project, producing the short film, 'On The Shoreline'. Presented as Boundaries by Contemporary Art Tasmania in association with MONA FOMA. This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania and Screen Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts. The Boundaries installation was built by Stuart Houghton with Alex Hullah, with sound design by Jon Smeathers, image support by Jason James, images by Remi Chauvin, sound by Callum Cusick, performances by PONY CAM and curated by Lucy Bleach.