AdriftLab<p>🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 recent <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AdriftLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdriftLab</span></a> MSc graduate Karli Mylius has published her first, first-author paper - yay yay👏<br>Our research focused on the ingestion of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/nanoplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nanoplastics</span></a> by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/shorebirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shorebirds</span></a> as few data exist, globally. To do this, we also collected data on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> particles in beach <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sediments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sediments</span></a> from locations where we saw the birds actively feeding in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tasmania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tasmania</span></a>. <br>We studied <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HoodedPlover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoodedPlover</span></a> (Vulnerable species) and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PiedOystercatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiedOystercatcher</span></a> (📸 credit Eric J Woehler) & found 1000s of tiny plastics in ALL of the birds and sediments we examined, no matter how remote the location. <br>Hooded Plovers have shorter beaks, and because of this, they feed in shallower (surface) sediments where more plastic has been shown to accumulate. Not surprisingly, their <a href="https://aus.social/tags/guano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guano</span></a> 💩 contained 32× more plastics, on average, than Pied Oystercatchers! 😳😢<br>We gratefully acknowledge the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TraditionalOwners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalOwners</span></a> of lutruwita, where this research was undertaken and funding from BirdLife TAS and a generous philanthropist who directly supported both students involved in this project during the 2022 cost of living crisis. <br>ACCESS THE PAPER HERE (free to download for 50 days) ➡️
<a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gNvZzLNScBJk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authors.elsevier.com/c/1gNvZzL</span><span class="invisible">NScBJk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/FlowCytometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlowCytometry</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FTIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FTIR</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microplastics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/beaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beaches</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DetectionMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetectionMethods</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ParticleSize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParticleSize</span></a></p>