What goes in, must come out: Combining scat‐based molecular diet analysis and quantification of ingested microplastics in a marine top predator

Incidence of marine debris in cetaceans stranded and bycaught in Ireland: Recent findings and a review of historical knowledge

(2018) Amy L. Lusher et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators

(2018) Sarah E. Nelms et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: How should we convert sequence reads to dietary data?

(2018) Bruce E. Deagle et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion by riverine macroinvertebrates

(2018) Fredric M. Windsor et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastic particles cause intestinal damage and other adverse effects in zebrafish Danio rerio and nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

(2018) Lili Lei et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastic ingestion ubiquitous in marine turtles

(2018) Emily M. Duncan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion in fish larvae in the western English Channel

(2017) Madeleine Steer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plastic and other microfibers in sediments, macroinvertebrates and shorebirds from three intertidal wetlands of southern Europe and west Africa

(2017) Pedro M. Lourenço et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Combining hard-part and DNA analyses of scats with biologging and stable isotopes can reveal different diet compositions and feeding strategies within a fur seal population

(2017) T Jeanniard-du-Dot et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

DNA metabarcoding for diet analysis and biodiversity: A case study using the endangered Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea )

(2017) Tina E. Berry et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Combining hard-part and DNA analyses of scats with biologging and stable isotopes can reveal different diet compositions and feeding strategies within a fur seal population

(2017) T Jeanniard-du-Dot et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Microplastic transport in soil by earthworms

(2017) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   Scientific Reports

Field evidence for transfer of plastic debris along a terrestrial food chain

(2017) Esperanza Huerta Lwanga et al.   Scientific Reports

Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton: prospects, progress and pitfalls

(2016) Ann Bucklin et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?

(2016) Rachid Dris et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic debris in great skua ( Stercorarius skua ) pellets corresponds to seabird prey species

(2016) S. Hammer et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic ingestion by Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ) from the Norwegian coast

(2016) Inger Lise N. Bråte et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic ingestion by pelagic and demersal fish from the North Sea and Baltic Sea

(2016) Christoph D. Rummel et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microscopic anthropogenic litter in terrestrial birds from Shanghai, China: Not only plastics but also natural fibers

(2016) Shiye Zhao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Optimised scat collection protocols for dietary DNA metabarcoding in vertebrates

(2016) Julie C. McInnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Cannibalism by a Male Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) in the North Sea

(2016) Amanda M. Bishop et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

18S rRNA V9 metabarcoding for diet characterization: a critical evaluation with two sympatric zooplanktivorous fish species

(2016) Aitor Albaina et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Ingestion of Microplastics by Zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

(2015) Jean-Pierre W. Desforges et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Microplastic and macroplastic ingestion by a deep diving, oceanic cetacean: The True's beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus

(2015) Amy L. Lusher et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The Impact of Polystyrene Microplastics on Feeding, Function and Fecundity in the Marine Copepod Calanus helgolandicus

(2015) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals

(2015) N. M. Hall et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Microplastic in a macro filter feeder: Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

(2015) E. Besseling et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Strandings of northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus, in the north-east Atlantic: seasonality and diet

(2014) Ruth Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Fine-scale diet of the Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using DNA-based analysis of faeces

(2014) Kristian J. Peters et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Large filter feeding marine organisms as indicators of microplastic in the pelagic environment: The case studies of the Mediterranean basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

(2014) Maria Cristina Fossi et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Isolation of microplastics in biota-rich seawater samples and marine organisms

(2014) Matthew Cole et al.   Scientific Reports

Grey seal diet analysis in Ireland highlights the importance of using multiple diagnostic features

(2013) M Gosch et al.   Aquatic Biology

Trophic level transfer of microplastic: Mytilus edulis (L.) to Carcinus maenas (L.)

(2013) Paul Farrell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A pragmatic approach to the analysis of diets of generalist predators: the use of next-generation sequencing with no blocking probes

(2013) J. Piñol et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A review of spatial and temporal variation in grey and common seal diet in the United Kingdom and Ireland

(2012) Susie L. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel

(2012) A.L. Lusher et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Marine Mammals as Sentinel Species for Oceans and Human Health

(2010) G. D. Bossart   VETERINARY PATHOLOGY

Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces

(2009) BRUCE E. DEAGLE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

(2009) E. L. Teuten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Method for Studying Protistan Diversity Using Massively Parallel Sequencing of V9 Hypervariable Regions of Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes

(2009) Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al.   PLoS One

Using quantitative real-time PCR to detect salmonid prey in scats of greyHalichoerus grypusand harbourPhoca vitulinaseals in Scotland - an experimental and field study

(2008) I. Matejusová et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Marine mammals as ecosystem sentinels

(2008) Sue E. Moore   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Stomach contents of mass-stranded short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from North Carolina

(2008) Vanessa J. Mintzer et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE