Dr. Marko Jusup (Biointerfaces Unit) together with his international collaborators developed a novel quantitative method to quantify the effects of plastic on marine animals. This method successfully shows that plastic ingestion by sea turtles might be causing population declines, despite a lack of strong effects on individual turtles.

Title: “Quantifying impacts of plastic debris on marine wildlife identifies ecological breakpoints”

DOI: 10.1111/ele.13574

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