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Coastal urban environments have high plastic pollution levels, and hence interactions between plastic debris and marine life are frequent. We report on plastic ingestion by mullet Mugil cephalus in Durban Harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Of 70 mullet (13.0–19.5?cm total length), 73% had plastic particles in their guts, with a mean of 3.8 particles per fish (SD 4.7). Plastic ingestion showed no relation to digestive tract content or fish length. White and clear plastic fibres were ingested most commonly. This urban population of M. cephalus had a higher incidence of plastic ingestion than has been reported in studies on fish from other coastal areas or the oceanic environment. 相似文献
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Mt. Ruapehu, in the central North Island of New Zealand, is one of the most lahar-prone volcanoes in the world. Since historic
observations began in 1861 AD, more than 50 individual lahars have been recorded in the Whangaehu valley alone, the natural
outlet to the summit Crater Lake. These lahars have been triggered by a variety of mechanisms, including explosive eruptions
that displaced Crater Lake water over the outlet or ejected it onto the snow-clad summit area of the volcano; rain-remobilisation
of tephra deposits on steep slopes; displacement over the outlet as a result of syn-eruptive changes in lake bathymetry; and
lake break-outs from Crater Lake following impoundment of excess water behind temporary barriers of tephra and/or ice emplaced
over the outlet. However, only 9 lahar deposits can be distinguished in the upper Whangaehu valley on sedimentological, stratigraphic,
geomorphic and petrological grounds, and these are skewed towards either the largest or the most recent flows. In some cases
magnitude can be reconstructed from deposit geometry, with the largest lahars producing the highest level terraces, the coarsest
deposits, and crossing drainage divides into normally inactive channels. This under-representation of historic events reflects
the low preservation potential of unconsolidated deposits in a steep alpine environment, and the overprinting and recycling
effect of large magnitude lahars that rework material down to bedrock and effectively reset the stratigraphic record. Development
of magnitude-frequency relationships for Ruapehu lahars therefore requires the identification of lahar deposits in proximal,
medial and distal settings in order to ensure that the full range of events is represented. 相似文献
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The kelp gull Larus dominicanus is an abundant and highly successful avian predator and scavenger that breeds along the coastline in the Southern Hemisphere, ranging from Antarctica to the tropics. On account of its dietary breadth, wide-ranging foraging strategies, and acclimation to modified landscapes, this species has received considerable attention within the seabird literature over the past 40 years. Furthermore, owing to its ready habituation to human-dominated environments, the species has been used as a bio-indicator of habitat modification. Here we describe new predatory behaviours of the kelp gull on a larger-bodied sympatric mammal species, the Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, along the coast of Namibia, and discuss our findings as they relate to food web dynamics and behavioural plasticity. 相似文献
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