Microplastic ingestion by baleen whales: How big a threat are the smallest plastics to the largest animals?
Baleen whales may be at extreme risk of exposure to microplastics, but neither the amount nor pathway of microplastic ingestion are well understood. My colleagues and I combined data from the California Current Ecosystem on density of micro plastics at different depths with tag deployments on blue, fin, and humpback whales to measure plastic ingestion […]