PUBLICATIONS
Please find some featured publications along with a full list of peer-reviewed publications and policy briefs below. Links to articles are included, however if you cannot access an article, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Featured
Full List of Publications
Courtene-Jones, W. , Burgevin, F., Munns, L., Shillam, M.B.T., De Falco, F., Buchard, A., Handy, R.D., Thompson, R.C., Hanley, M.E. Deterioration of bio-based polylactic acid plastic teabags under environmental conditions and their associated effects on earthworms. Science of the Total Environment
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Courtene-Jones, W., De Falco, F., Napper, I., (2023), A Review of Biodegradable Plastics from Multidisciplinary Perspectives, In: Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean, A. Horton (Eds), World Scientific Press (Publisher), pp412
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Courtene-Jones W, Clark NJ & Thompson RC (2022) 'Plastic pollution requires an integrative systems approach to understand and mitigate risk' Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 6, (4) 435-439
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Courtene-Jones W, Clark NJ & Thompson RC (2022) 'Plastic pollution: the science we need for the planet we want' Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 6, (4) 333-337
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Courtene-Jones W, van Gennip S, Penicaud J, Penn E & Thompson RC (2022) 'Synthetic microplastic abundance and composition along a longitudinal gradient traversing the subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean' Marine Pollution Bulletin 185, (Part B) ,
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Courtene-Jones W, Martínez Rodríguez A & Handy RD (2022) 'From microbes to ecosystems: a review of the ecological effects of biodegradable plastics' Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
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Courtene-Jones, W., Clark, N. J., Fischer, A. C., Smith, N. S. & Thompson, R. C. (2022) 'Ingestion of Microplastics by Marine Animals', in Andrady, A.L. (ed.) Plastics and the Ocean. pp. 349-366
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Courtene-Jones, W., Liu, K. & Li, D. (2022) 'Estimating Microplastics in Deep Water', in Andrady, A.L. (ed.) Plastics and the Ocean. Wiley, pp. 131-149.
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Courtene-Jones W, Maddalene T, James MK, Smith NS, Youngblood K, Jambeck JR, Earthrowl S, Delvalle-Borrero D, Penn E & Thompson RC (2021) 'Source, sea and sink—A holistic approach to understanding plastic pollution in the Southern Caribbean' Science of The Total Environment 797, 0-0
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Liu K, Courtene-Jones W, Wang X, Song Z, Wei N & Li D (2020) 'Elucidating the vertical transport of microplastics in the water column: A review of sampling methodologies and distributions' Water Research 186,
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Courtene-Jones W, Quinn B, Ewins C, Gary SF & Narayanaswamy BE (2020) 'Microplastic accumulation in deep-sea sediments from the Rockall Trough' Marine Pollution Bulletin 154,
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Courtene-Jones W, Quinn B, Ewins C, Gary SF & Narayanaswamy BE (2018) 'Consistent microplastic ingestion by deep-sea invertebrates over the last four decades (1976–2015), a study from the North East Atlantic' Environmental Pollution 244, 503-512
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Nuuttila HK, Brundiers K, Dähne M, Koblitz JC, Thomas L, Courtene-Jones W, Evans PGH, Turner JR, Bennell JD & Hiddink JG (2018) 'Estimating effective detection area of static passive acoustic data loggers from playback experiments with cetacean vocalisations' Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9, (12) 2362-2371
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Courtene-Jones W, Quinn B, Gary SF, Mogg AOM & Narayanaswamy BE (2017) 'Microplastic pollution identified in deep-sea water and ingested by benthic invertebrates in the Rockall Trough, North Atlantic Ocean' Environmental Pollution 231, 271-280
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Nuuttila HK, Courtene-Jones W, Baulch S, Simon M & Evans PGH (2017) 'Don’t forget the porpoise: acoustic monitoring reveals fine scale temporal variation between bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise in Cardigan Bay SAC' Marine Biology 164, (3)
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Courtene-Jones W, Quinn B, Murphy F, Gary SF & Narayanaswamy BE (2017) 'Optimisation of enzymatic digestion and validation of specimen preservation methods for the analysis of ingested microplastics' Analytical Methods 9, (9) 1437-1445 , DOI
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Courtene-Jones W & Briffa M (2014) 'Boldness and asymmetric contests: role- and outcome-dependent effects of fighting in hermit crabs' Behavioral Ecology 25, (5) 1073-1082
Policy Briefs and Reports
Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (2023) Policy Brief: The global plastics treaty: What is the role of bio-based plastic, biodegradable plastic and bioplastic?
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Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (2023) Policy Brief: Role of chemicals and polymers of concern in the global plastics treaty,
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Courtene-Jones W. & Thompson, R. C. (2021) Terrestrial borne litter in the marine environment- evidence review and quantifying the issue. report for DEFRA
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SAPEA, (2020), Biodegradability of plastics in the open environment, A Scientific Perspective on Microplastics in Nature and Society
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