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Responses Of The Symbiotic Sea Anemone Anthopleura Elegantissima To Microplastics, Robert Beck
Responses Of The Symbiotic Sea Anemone Anthopleura Elegantissima To Microplastics, Robert Beck
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The Salish Sea, a large and complex fjord estuary, receives waters impacted by a watershed that includes 8 million people aggregated in several large urban and industrial centers. Microplastics, defined as plastic particles less than 5 mm in their largest dimension, are transported from this watershed into the Salish Sea where they are easily ingested by filter feeders, herbivores and predators. To measure effects of microplastics on one common and important intertidal species, we exposed the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima to polyester microfibers at concentrations of 0, 0.01, or 0.1 g/L in the laboratory and measured the responses of the …