Marine debris in the nests of tākapu (Australasian gannets,Morus serrator) in the inner Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

Adams, Nigel; Gaskin, C.; Whitehead, E.

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2020
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Adams, N., Gaskin, C., & Whitehead, E. (2020). Marine debris in the nests of tākapu (Australasian gannets, Morus serrator) in the inner Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. Notornis, 67, 558-563.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5272
Abstract
Marine debris, principally plastics, are a persistent pollutant in marine systems (Law 2017). The recovery of plastics from the digestive tracts of both coastal and pelagic seabirds or from around their nests has demonstrated that plastics are ubiquitous across all oceans (Wilcox et al. 2015; Jagielle et al. 2019) and has led to the use of these birds as indicators for the distribution and relative amount of marine plastic debris (Hartwig et al. 2007; Ryan et al. 2009; van Franeker et al. 2011; van Franeker & Law 2015; Acampora et al. 2016).
Keywords:
Hauraki Gulf (Auckland, N.Z.), Auckland (N.Z.), New Zealand, Morus serrator (Australasian gannets), gannets, tākapu, plastic waste, marine pollution, seabirds, pollution, threat assessments, Australasian gannets
ANZSRC Field of Research:
050202 Conservation and Biodiversity
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand Inc.

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