Elie Abrial

TL;DR: There is a continued need to increase the field-data bases about plastics (all size fractions) in freshwater environments, especially in countries with rapid economic development and poor waste management, and to estimate river plastic emissions to the world's oceans.

TL;DR: The results suggest neither macroplastic nor mesoplastics would serve as surrogate for microplastic items in pollution surveys, suggesting the need to consider all three size categories.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of fish assemblages recorded from August 2010 to July 2013 in two lotic and lentic environments of the Middle Parana River floodplain was studied in the light of flood and flow pulse variations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the greater thornbird, a bird species preferably nesting in river floodplain wetlands in South America, has the potential to indicate vulnerable areas to plastic pollution associated with urban waste mismanagement.

TL;DR: Temporal variations of fish abundance and species richness in two sites of a secondary channel of the Middle Paraná Floodplain (Argentina) have been analyzed and reveal significant differences in structure and composition of fish assemblages at distinct stages of the hydrological regime.