Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

Published:2018-01-26 Issue:6374 Volume:359 Page:460-462
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Lamb Joleah B.¹²³^ORCID,Willis Bette L.²³^ORCID,Fiorenza Evan A.¹⁴^ORCID,Couch Courtney S.¹⁵⁶^ORCID,Howard Robert⁷,Rader Douglas N.⁸^ORCID,True James D.⁹,Kelly Lisa A.³¹⁰^ORCID,Ahmad Awaludinnoer¹¹¹²,Jompa Jamaluddin¹²^ORCID,Harvell C. Drew¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

2. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.

3. College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

4. School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

5. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.

6. Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI 96818, USA.

7. Marine Programme, Fauna & Flora International, Yangon, Myanmar.

8. Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA.

9. Center for Biodiversity in Peninsular Thailand, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand.

10. Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

11. The Nature Conservancy, Raja Ampat Field Office, North Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia.

12. Faculty of Marine Science and Fisheries, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Abstract

Corals wrapped in plastic Coral reefs provide vital fisheries and coastal defense, and they urgently need protection from the damaging effects of plastic waste. Lamb et al. surveyed 159 coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region. Billions of plastic items were entangled in the reefs. The more spikey the coral species, the more likely they were to snag plastic. Disease likelihood increased 20-fold once a coral was draped in plastic. Plastic debris stresses coral through light deprivation, toxin release, and anoxia, giving pathogens a foothold for invasion. Science , this issue p. 460

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Global Environment Facility

Australian Research Council

Environmental Defense Fund

The Nature Conservancy

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary