Yo trabajo en descontaminación ambiental y la idea de esta cuenta (que estoy recuperando su actividad) es promover la divulgación de la ciencia ambiental y la biología (principalmente del trabajo de mi grupo y mío, aunque también de temas de actualidad)

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Moreover, once pellets arrive to the coast (or the sea bottom, if could), burial may happens. This event, in addition to ease the pellets’ accesing to other species, and the pellets' erosion, could allow its temporal storage in a particular zone, finally returning to water and prolonging the problem

Tinyiest fragments could incorporate to the lower levels of trophic chains, boosting and worstening the bioaccumulation. Besides, depending on its size, those could promote other effects as citotoxicity or marine pathogens transportation.

Once in the sea, as time passes, the physicochemical action of water, light, living beings and multiple chemical compounds could drive the pellets degradation, releasing toxics in the water and producing tiny plastic fragments

The pellets release to the marine environment allows its potential swallowing by consumers, like little fishes. Those could die by digestive obstruction or plastic adittives poisoninng, or else incorporate those pellets to the trophic nets, bioaccumulating.

It would be very interesting researching about this topic, but if I wander more from my PhD topic I bet that my advisors will beat me up to refocus me to my thesis' affairs (joke, please don't hit me 😜). For now, my life is tied to eutrophication.

Maybe yes, because in the zone there is a great exposition to radon gas, but I discard it since is a common feature in the region (map in % of measurements over 200 Bq/m³) and there isn't another radiation source. I rather point to a more "chemical" source of contamination.

I don't say that this is the only cause, but a good one to explain this specific case of albinism. Moreover, albinism and chimerism are not necessarily related, and for the zone I mentioned, where chimerism is more frequent than normal, I have other hypothesis about why it is more common.

I suppose it developed this way due to an incomplete reproduction process by stolons, under conditions of low insolation (e.g., a bramble branches vegetal cupule).
This photo is from a little spanish town called Mugardos. If not common, is no very rare to find things like chimeras in the zone