Microplastics may be accumulating rapidly in endangered Galápagos penguins’ food web
Microplastics, with a size from 1 micron to Spheniscus mendiculus) as an indicator species to trace how deeply microplastic bioaccumulation has entered the food web in the isolated Galápagos Islands. An analysis of seawater collected around Santa Cruz Island, a human-populated island, with nearby Galápagos penguin colonies revealed plastic particles. Using models that focused on … Read more
