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Microplastic Contamination Alters Seagrass Nutritional Quality and Gut Microbiome Stability in Dugong (Dugong dugon): An Integrated One Health Assessment in Tropical Coastal Ecosystems
Summary
Researchers conducted an integrated One Health assessment linking microplastic contamination in tropical seagrass beds to reductions in seagrass nutritional quality and destabilization of gut microbiome diversity in dugongs, highlighting cascading ecological risks for this vulnerable marine herbivore from plastic pollution in coastal ecosystems.
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a vulnerable marine herbivore whose survival depends on the ecological integrity of tropical seagrass ecosystems. This study evaluated the relationships among microplastic contamination, seagrass nutritional quality, gut microbiome diversity, parasite prev...