Poor feeding habits due to climate change may cause sardines to ingest more microplastics

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Mar 18, 2025, 1:05 pm218 ptsTrendingTop
Researchers from the UAB demonstrate that the way sardines eat, altered due to the reduction in size of plankton, undermines the efficiency of their feeding and increases the likelihood of consuming more plastic fibers. Although no direct negative effects of this ingestion were identified, environmental changes…

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Poor feeding habits due to climate change may cause sardines to ingest more microplastics

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