Plastic pollution has become one of the largest environmental challenges we currently face.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has listed it as a critical problem, …

Marine plastic ingestion by seabirds was first documented in the 1960s, but over 50 years
later our understanding about the prevalence, intensity, and subsequent effect of plastic …

Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment.
The exponential increase in the level of plastic debris raises numerous concerns and has …

Human adipose tissue represents an abundant reservoir of stromal cells with potential utility
for tissue engineering. The current study demonstrates the ability of human adipose tissue-…

… Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postgraduate scholarship to AL Bond.
EJ Ward provided valuable discussions on comparing Dirichlet distributions, B. Graham, J. …

In just over half a century plastic products have revolutionized human society and have
infiltrated terrestrial and marine environments in every corner of the globe. The hazard plastic …

To provide much needed quantitative data on the lethal and sublethal effects of plastic
pollution on marine wildlife, we sampled breast feathers and stomach contents from Flesh-footed …

Plastic pollution is strewn across beaches and in oceans, bays, and estuaries. Tiny particles
of plastic debris (often called microplastics) are so pervasive in aquatic ecosystems that we …

… . 2009), although in a recent thorough review of seabird diet studies and methods (Barrett et
al. … may have lipid-rich blood that would require lipid correction (Bond et al. 2010). Tissues …

. The application of stable-isotope analysis (SIA) in ecology has increased exponentially in
the last 20 years. As with any novel field of inquiry, there has been inconsistent (and …