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. 2020 Oct 22;10:18023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75024-6

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Response of liver concentration of metal(loid)s to ingested plastic in examined Pachytila seabirds; fairy prion (n = 25) and slender-billed prions (n = 25). Prions were collected dead in emaciated condition during a “seabird wreck”, following a significant off-shore winter storm in New Zealand, 2016, during which an estimated tens to hundreds of thousands of prions died. Statistical significance between metal(loid) concentration and plastic presence was tested by Mann–Whitney U-test. A positive sign ( +) indicates a significant positive relationship between ingested plastic and the liver concentration of each metal(loid), while a negative sign (-) indicates a significant negative relationship. Support for transfer and malnutrition associative mechanisms, predicted in the literature, is represented by a statistically significant relationship between ingested plastic and liver metal(loid) concentration. Observed relationship that match associations predicted in literature are represented by a tick (✓) and those that refute associations predicted in literature are represented by a cross (X). Not significant (N.S.) shows where a relationship was predicted, but no significant relationship was found. The results show partial support for transfer (2✓, 3X) and support for malnutrition (5✓, 0X). Prion silhouette and image manipulation created using GIMP⁸⁸.