REVIEW published: 24 July 2018 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00238 Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution From Continental Coasts to Subtropical Gyres—Fish, Seabirds, and Other Vertebrates in the SE Pacific Martin Thiel 1,2,3*, Guillermo Luna-Jorquera 1,2,3, Rocío Álvarez-Varas 2,4, Camila Gallardo 1,2, Iván A. Hinojosa 1,2,5, Nicolás Luna 1,2, Diego Miranda-Urbina 6, Naiti Morales 1,2, Nicolas Ory 1,2,7, Aldo S. Pacheco 8, Matías Portflitt-Toro 1,2 and Carlos Zavalaga 9 Edited by: 1 Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile, 2 Millennium Nucleus Ecology and Francois Galgani, Sustainable Management of Oceanic Island, Coquimbo, Chile, 3 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, Coquimbo, Institut Français de Recherche pour Chile, 4 Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 5 Facultad de l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Ciencias, Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile, 6 Instituto de France Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile, 7 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 8 9 Reviewed by: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile, Universidad André Ricardo Araújo Lima, Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Anthropogenic Marine Debris (AMD) in the SE Pacific has primarily local origins from Hans Uwe Dahms, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan land-based sources, including cities (coastal and inland), beach-goers, aquaculture, and *Correspondence: fisheries. The low frequency of AMD colonized by oceanic biota (bryozoans, lepadid Martin Thiel barnacles) suggests that most litter items from coastal waters of the Humboldt Current
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