PhD Candidate Marine Ecology, Macquarie University
Louise is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University. She has an interest in all things marine but is particularly interested in coastal ecosystems and related processes. Louise has several years experience working on the impacts of microplastics on animal behaviour and community structure and has published her work in international journals. Louise has a passion for community and behavioural ecology and is focused on understanding how we can use behaviour as a tool to understand the effects of human disturbance.
How microplastics make their way up the ocean food chain into fish
Dec 01, 2016 19:13 pm UTC| Nature
Up to 236,000 tonnes of microplastics tiny pieces of broken-down plastic smaller than your little fingernail enter our oceans each year. This has researchers around the world worried, as wildlife can be harmed by eating...
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