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Freitas TBN, Leite TS, de Ramos B, Proietti MC. Understanding the interactions between cephalopods and marine litter: A research evaluation with identification of gaps and future perspectives. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2023; 190:114814. [PMID: 36933358 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Litter is known to negatively affect numerous marine organisms, but the extent of such impacts is not well known for several groups, including cephalopods. Considering the ecological, behavioral and economic importance of these animals, we reviewed the types of interactions between cephalopods and litter in the scientific literature, to evaluate impacts and knowledge gaps. We found 30 papers, which included records of microplastic ingestion and the transfer of synthetic microfibers along the food web. The largest number of records involved litter use as shelter, and the common octopus was the most frequent species. At first sight, litter use as shelter could appear to be a potential positive effect, but it is necessary to clarify the implications of this choice and its long-term consequences. Regarding ingestion and trophic transfer, further research is needed to elucidate its occurrence and impacts on cephalopods and their predators, including humans.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tainah B N Freitas
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Oceanografia Biológica and Projeto Lixo Marinho, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Campus Carreiros, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Métodos de Estudos Subaquáticos e Cefalópodes, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Trindade, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Oceanografia Biológica and Projeto Lixo Marinho, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Campus Carreiros, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil; The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Freitas TBN, Leite TS, de Ramos B, di Cosmo A, Proietti MC. In an octopus's garden in the shade: Underwater image analysis of litter use by benthic octopuses. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2022; 175:113339. [PMID: 35093780 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Benthic octopuses have been widely documented in artificial shelters for decades, and this use is apparently increasing. Despite any possible positive effects, the use of litter as shelter could have negative implications. In this work, we aimed to elucidate the interactions of octopuses with marine litter, identifying types of interactions and affected species and regions. To achieve this, we obtained 261 underwater images from 'citizen science' records, and identified 8 genera and 24 species of benthic octopuses interacting with litter. Glass objects were present in 41.6% of interactions, and plastic in 24.7%. Asia presented the highest number of images, and most records were from 2018 to 2021. Citizen science provided important evidence on octopus/marine litter interactions, highlighting its value and the need for more investigations on the subject. This information is fundamental to help prevent and mitigate the impacts of litter on octopuses, and identify knowledge gaps that require attention.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tainah B N Freitas
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Oceanografia Biológica and Projeto Lixo Marinho, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Avenida Itália Km 08, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Métodos de Estudos Subaquáticos e Cefalópodes, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant' Angelo, Via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Oceanografia Biológica and Projeto Lixo Marinho, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Avenida Itália Km 08, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
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Steibl S, Franke J, Laforsch C. Tourism and urban development as drivers for invertebrate diversity loss on tropical islands. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2021; 8:210411. [PMID: 34659777 PMCID: PMC8511749 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Oceanic islands harbour a disproportionately high number of endemic and threatened species. Rapidly growing human populations and tourism are posing an increasing threat to island biota, yet the ecological consequences of these human land uses on small oceanic island systems have not been quantified. Here, we investigated and compared the impact of tourism and urban island development on ground-associated invertebrate biodiversity and habitat composition on oceanic islands. To disentangle tourism and urban land uses, we investigated Indo-Pacific atoll islands, which either exhibit only tourism or urban development, or remain uninhabited. Within the investigated system, we show that species richness, abundance and Shannon diversity of the investigated invertebrate community are significantly decreased under tourism and urban land use, relative to uninhabited islands. Remote-sensing-based spatial data suggest that habitat fragmentation and a reduction in vegetation density are having significant effects on biodiversity on urban islands, whereas land use/cover changes could not be linked to the documented biodiversity loss on tourist islands. This offers the first direct evidence for a major terrestrial invertebrate loss on remote oceanic atoll islands due to different human land uses with yet unforeseeable long-term consequences for the stability and resilience of oceanic island ecosystems.
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- Sebastian Steibl
- Department of Animal Ecology I and BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Universitaetsstr. 30, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Remote Sensing Solutions (RSS) GmbH, Dingolfingerstr. 9, D-81673 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology I and BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Universitaetsstr. 30, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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de Carvalho-Souza GF, Llope M, Tinôco MS, Medeiros DV, Maia-Nogueira R, Sampaio CLS. Marine litter disrupts ecological processes in reef systems. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2018; 133:464-471. [PMID: 30041338 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Marine litter (ML) contaminates essentially all global coastal and marine environments and drives multiple ecosystem-level effects. Although deleterious effects of ML on several organisms have been investigated in the last years, this information tends to be dispersed or underreported, even in marine biodiversity hotspots such as reef ecosystems. Two are the main goals of this paper: (i) to integrate and synthesize current knowledge on the interactions of ML and reef organisms, and (ii) to evaluate the multiple disruptions on the ecological processes in reef systems. We report here ML-driven ecological disruptions on 418 species across eight reef taxa, including interactions that were previously not addressed in detail, and evaluate their major conservation implications. These results can help raise awareness of global impacts on the world's reefs by highlighting ML associations in different reef systems around the world, and can aid in ML input reduction and marine management.
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- Gustavo F de Carvalho-Souza
- CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, 70040-020 Brasília, DF, Brazil; Universidade Católica do Salvador (UCSal), Campus de Pituaçu, Av. Prof. Pinto de Aguiar, Pituaçu, 41.740-090 Salvador, BA, Brazil; Instituto Español de Oceanografia (IEO), Centro Oceanografico de Cádiz, Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante, s/n, 11006, Spain.
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografia (IEO), Centro Oceanografico de Cádiz, Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante, s/n, 11006, Spain
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- Universidade Católica do Salvador (UCSal), Campus de Pituaçu, Av. Prof. Pinto de Aguiar, Pituaçu, 41.740-090 Salvador, BA, Brazil; Centro de Ecologia e Conservação Animal (ECOA//PPGPA/UCSAL), Campus de Pituaçu, Av. Prof. Pinto de Aguiar, Pituaçu, 41.740-090 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Católica do Salvador (UCSal), Campus de Pituaçu, Av. Prof. Pinto de Aguiar, Pituaçu, 41.740-090 Salvador, BA, Brazil; Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), R. da Mangueira, s/n°, Centro, 58297-000 Rio Tinto, PB, Brazil
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- Centro de Pesquisa e Conservação dos Ecossistemas Aquáticos, BIOTA Aquática, Av. Euclydes da Cunha, 476/4B, Graça, 40.150-122 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Campus Arapiraca, Unidade de Ensino Penedo, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Conservação (LIC), Av. Beira Rio, s/n°, Centro Histórico, 57.200-000 Penedo, AL, Brazil
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