Plastic pollution is now an area of intense focus for direct chemical and physical toxicity effects in organisms and environmental systems. However, the effects from plastics...
Marine plastic pollution is an identified contaminant of emerging concern, with expected increases in contamination levels if plastic production projections eventuate. Scientists, managers and the pub
This project looks at the effects of plastic to the microbial biodiversity and abundance, and how this could affect the microbial food webs and potentially the trophic systems.
Coastal urban environments have high plastic pollution levels, and hence interactions between plastic debris and marine life are frequent. We report on plastic ingestion by mullet Mugil cephalus in Du