The mass of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean has been found to host a previously unknown type of ecological community of arthropods, molluscs and sea anemones that normally live by the shore
at the Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut and his colleagues collected 105 items of plastic waste from the garbage patch between November 2018 and January 2019. More than 70 per cent of the plastic items had evidence of coastal species living on them, with organisms including shrimp-like arthropods, sea anemones and molluscs identified. In fact, coastal species outnumbered pelagic species that live in the open sea by a ratio of 3 to 1, the team found.
The coastal creatures seemed to be permanently living and reproducing on the plastic patch, says Carlton. “These are species that have rafted out with coastal debris and have now successfully found essentially a novel habitat out there,” he says.A monthly celebration of the biodiversity of our planet’s animals, plants and other organisms.
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