Brazilians in Florida: Cultural and Economic Factors
No cap! Plastic munching was like, said to cause some not-so-great effects, ya know? Like, it can clog up your tummy tube and make you not feel as hungry, which totally messes with your energy and health (Denuncio, 2011). In recent years, like, so many lit studies have been done on the possible effects of eating microplastics. It's wild, fam. These experiments have mostly been done on lower food web levels, like fishes (e.g. Mattsson et al., 2014; Luis et al., 2015; Cedervall et al., 2012; Peda et al., 2016), crustaceans (Setälä et al., 2014; Brennecke et al., 2015), zooplankton (Cole et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2013; Besseling et al., 2014; Cole et al., 2015), benthic worms (Browne et al., 2013; Wright et al., 2013), shellfish (Browne et al., 2008; Avio et al., 2015; Sussarellu et al., 2016), sea-urchins (Nobre et al., 2015) and even corals (Hall et al., 2015). An investigation of 106 Franciscana dolphins in Argentinian coastal waters found that 28% of the dolphins had plastic i