A big thank you to the University of Hamburg for giving us the chance to present our research on "Animal-plastic interactions and geological plastic forms in aquatic environments" during last week's Zoological Colloquium.

Special Issue: Plastic Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems Submission deadline: 15 January 2025 link.springer.com/collections/ah…

Ellrich, J.A., Kozian-Fleck, C., Brand, M., Colsoul, B. & Pogoda, B. (2025) Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters. Frontiers in Environmental Science 13, 1509318. doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.…

Bitumen-based plastitar found in IJmuiden, The Netherlands! We recently examined this novel plastic form variant in our open access article: doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.…

Deadline extended: our Research Topic in Frontiers in Marine Science accepts submissions until 7 May 2025. Thank you for your interest. frontiersin.org/research-topic…

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New open access article published: Scrosati, R. A. & Ellrich, J. A. (2025). Support for the intermittent upwelling hypothesis using 10 years of barnacle recruitment data from a western ocean boundary in Atlantic Canada. PeerJ 13: e19470. doi.org/10.7717/peerj.…

New study in Marine Pollution Bulletin found emerging pollutants in whales from German waters: "When the small ones tease the largest: Microplastic and phthalate ester occurrence in cetaceans occasionally found in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea". doi.org/10.1016/j.marp…

The stability of rocky intertidal communities along the Nova Scotia coast is changing with the ongoing climate and oceanographic change: doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…

Novel article shows "Evidence of uses of marine litter by Mediterranean Cephalopoda". This article is part of the Research Topic "Interactions of Marine Biota with Plastic Pollution". Submissions are possible until 7 July 2025. Thank you very much. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…

StFX Marine Ecology Lab Researchers Publish Study On Latitudinal Changes of Rocky Intertidal Atlantic Communities. stfx.ca/news/marine-ec…

Joern et al. recently 'Characterized Microbial Biofilms on Marine Plastics'. This open access article is part of the research topic 'Interactions of Marine Biota with Plastic Pollution'. Manuscript submission deadline is 7 July 2025. Thank you very much. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…

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