PANGAEA_965691 Polymers identified in loggerhead turtles (Carretta caretta) stranded or bycaught in North Cyprus, eastern Mediterranean Duncan, Emily M; Deniz Akbora, Hasan; Baldi, Patrizia; Beton, Damla; Broderick, Annette C; Cicek, Burak Ali; Crowe-Harland, Charlotte; Davey, Sophie; DeSerisy, Tess; Fuller, Wayne J; Haywood, Julia C; Hsieh, Yu Jou; Kaya, Ecem; Omeyer, Lucy C M; Ozkan, Meryem; Palmer, Josie L; Roast, Emma; Santillo, David; Schneider, M Jesse; Snape, Robin T E; Sutherland, Katrina C; Godley, Brendan J Polymers identified in loggerhead turtles (Carretta caretta) stranded or bycaught in North Cyprus, eastern Mediterranean 2024-02-20 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965691 Investigator Emily M Duncan ed291@exeter.ac.uk Earth Science DATE/TIME Curved carapace length Polyethylene Polypropylene Polyamide Nylon Polyvinyl chloride Polystyrene Polyisoprene chlorinated Polymethylmethacrylat Polydimethylsiloxane Polyhexanide Polyundecanoamide geoscientificInformation bioindicators Marine Debris marine turtles Plastic litter Plastic pollution Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) 2012-12-01 2022-10-05 Complete unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 408 data points text/tab-separated-values Duncan, Emily M; Akbora, Hasan Deniz; Baldi, Patrizia; Beton, Damla; Broderick, Annette C; Cicek, Burak Ali; Crowe-Harland, Charlotte; Davey, Sophie; DeSerisy, Tess; Fuller, Wayne J; Haywood, Julia C; Hsieh, Yu Jou; Kaya, Ecem; Omeyer, Lucy C M; Ozkan, Meryem; Palmer, Josie L; Roast, Emma; Santillo, David; Schneider, M Jesse; Snape, Robin T E; Sutherland, Katrina C; Godley, Brendan J (2024): Marine turtles as bio-indicators of plastic pollution in the eastern Mediterranean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 201, 116141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116141 Duncan, Emily M; Arrowsmith, Jessica A; Bain, Charlotte E; Bowdery, Hannah; Broderick, Annette C; Chalmers, Tierney; Fuller, Wayne J; Galloway, Tamara S; Lee, Jonathon H; Lindeque, Penelope K; Omeyer, Lucy C M; Snape, Robin T E; Godley, Brendan J (2019): Diet-related selectivity of macroplastic ingestion in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the eastern Mediterranean. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 11581, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48086-4 Duncan, Emily M; Broderick, Annette C; Critchell, Kay; Galloway, Tamara S; Hamann, Mark; Limpus, Colin J; Lindeque, Penelope K; Santillo, David; Tucker, Anton D; Whiting, Scott; Young, Erina J; Godley, Brendan J (2021): Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 699521, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.699521 Galgani, Francois; Claro, Francoise; Depledge, M; Fossi, C (2014): Monitoring the impact of litter in large vertebrates in the Mediterranean Sea within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD): Constraints, specificities and recommendations. Marine Environmental Research, 100, 3-9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.02.003 van Franeker, Jan Andries; Blaize, Christine; Danielsen, Johannis; Fairclough, Keith; Gollan, Jane; Guse, Nils; Hansen, Poul-Lindhard; Heubeck, Martin; Jensen, Jens-Kjeld; Le Guillou, Gilles; Olsen, Bergur; Olsen, Kåre-Olav; Pedersen, J; Stienen, Eric W M; Turner, Daniel M (2011): Monitoring plastic ingestion by the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Sea. Environmental Pollution, 159(10), 2609-2615, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.008

Observations of investigations for plastic ingestion in loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), stranded or bycaught on the coastline of North Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean). A total of 135 loggerhead turtles were sampled spanning a period of 11 years (2012-2022). During necropsy, the entire gastrointestinal tract was removed and initial contents weighed. The contents were grossly examined then rinsed through a 1 mm mesh sieve to separate and remove the plastic for classification and dietary items for storage and analysis. Ingested plastic was classified using a system outlined in Duncan et al. (2019, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48086-4; 2021, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.699521) which builds upon the Fulmar Protocol and MSFD (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) Marine Litter Report 2011 (Descriptor 10) toolkits (Galgani et al., 2014, doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.02.003; van Franeker et al., 2011, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.008). ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965691"!

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