Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Coupling Gastro-Intestinal Tract Analysis With an Airborne Contamination Control Method to Estimate Litter Ingestion in Demersal Elasmobranchs |
| Authors: |
Cristina Pedà, Pietro Battaglia, Michela D’Alessandro, Federica Laface, Danilo Malara, Pierpaolo Consoli, Teresa Manuela Vicchio, Francesco Longo, Franco Andaloro, Matteo Baini, Matteo Galli, Teresa Bottari, Maria Cristina Fossi, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo |
| Source: |
Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol 8 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: |
Frontiers Media S.A., 2020. |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Environmental sciences |
| Subject Terms: |
selachians, GIT analysis, microplastics, FT-IR spectroscopy, polymers, airborne contamination control, Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| More Details: |
This study aims to assess the litter ingestion in some demersal elasmobranchs, combining a classical gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) analysis with a procedure methodology to reduce airborne fibers contamination. In order to prevent the overestimation of litter ingestion, we applied severe mitigation measures to avoid airborne contamination during the analyses, integrating a new approach for the correction of estimates of fibers abundance using control procedure. In this study, we assessed the anthropogenic litter ingestion in four elasmobranch species from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Scyliorhinus canicula (n = 27), Etmopterus spinax (n = 16), Galeus melastomus (n = 12), and Raja clavata (n = 6). The GIT of each specimen was analyzed by visual sorting and the polymers identified by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy technique. Overall, 19 litter particles were found in the GIT of 13 demersal elasmobranchs (%O = 21) and for the first time, evidence of litter ingestion by R. clavata in Mediterranean waters was also reported. In G. melastomus and R. clavata all anthropogenic particles were plastics, whereas in S. canicula other litter categories were also found. No litter ingestion was instead observed in E. spinax. More than 50% of litter particles belonged to microlitter category ( |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2296-665X |
| Relation: |
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2020.00119/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-665X |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fenvs.2020.00119 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/bcce68936f38439baaba2ae9a28c51e3 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.bcce68936f38439baaba2ae9a28c51e3 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
