{"id":538226,"date":"2018-10-23T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/10\/181023110551.htm"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:05:51","slug":"how-microplastics-marine-aggregates-and-marine-animals-are-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=538226","title":{"rendered":"How microplastics, marine aggregates and marine animals are connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior research has suggested that mussels are a robust indicator of plastic debris and particles in marine environments. A new study says that&#8217;s not the case because mussels are picky eaters and have an inherent ability to choose and sort their food. Instead, the researchers have discovered that marine aggregates also called &#8221;marine snow,&#8221; play a much bigger role in the fate of the oceans when it comes to plastic debris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior research has suggested that mussels are a robust indicator of plastic debris and particles in marine environments. A new study says that&#8217;s not the case because mussels are picky eaters and have an inherent ability to choose and sort their food. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538227,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538226\/revisions\/538227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}