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Publications 2019-2025

Books

1. Bendell, L.I. 2025. Ecotoxicology; a case based approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hardcover, ‎ 400 pages ISBN-10: 1394197446

Research papers

1. Zeinab Zoveidadianpour, Juan José Alava, Mark C. Drever, Goetz Schuerholz, Caitlin Pierzchalski, Tristan Douglas, William A. Heath, Bernhard Juurlink, Leah Bendell, Microplastic distribution and composition in mudflat sediments and varnish clams (Nuttallia obscurata) at two estuaries of British Columbia, Canada: An assessment of potential anthropogenic sources, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 211, 2025, 117367, ISSN 0025-326X, .

2. Kazmiruk Tamara N. , Alava Juan José , Palsson Eirikur , Bendell Leah I. 2025 Temperature affects the sorption of trace metals by macro- and microplastics within marine intertidal sediments: insights from a long-term laboratory-based study. Frontiers in Marine Science, DOI=10.3389/fmars.2025.1570114

3. Zeinab Zoveidadianpour, Juan José Alava, Mark C. Drever, Goetz Schuerholz, Caitlin Pierzchalskie, Tristan Douglas, Bill Heath, Bernhard Juurlink, & Leah Bendell.  2024 Microplastic distribution and Composition in mudflat sediments and Varnish clams (Nuttallia obscurata) from two human-impacted estuaries of British Columbia, Canada: an assessment of potential anthropogenic sources. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 

4. Bendell, Leah I.; Rankin, Sabina; Delany, Kat; Stenner, Katelyn; Silveri, Amanda; Zhou, Wen (2024). Reducing the Uncertainty of Microplastic Identification and the Preferred Use of the Varnish clam (Nuttallia obscurata) as Compared to Other Bivalves as a Biomonitor of Plastic Pollution. 2024. ACS Publications. Collection. 

5. Renkers, S.L., Bendell, L.I., 2024. Investigating the ecological and toxicological significance of Cyanox®53 recovered from intertidal sediments and varnish clam. Frontiers in Environmental Science 12.  

6. Kazmiruk, Tamara and Alava, Juan José and Palsson, Eirikur and Bendell, Leah, Sorption of Trace Metals by Macro- and Microplastics within Intertidal Sediments: Insights from a Long-Term Field Study within Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. 2024.  or 

7. Juan José Alava, Annika Jahnke, Melanie Bergmann, Gabriela V. Aguirre-Martínez, Leah Bendell, Paola Calle, Gustavo A. Domínguez, Elaine M. Faustman, Jill Falman, Tamara N. Kazmiruk, Natasha Klasios, Maria T. Maldonado, Karly McMullen, Marcia Moreno-Báez, Gunilla Öberg, Yoshitaka Ota, Dana Price, Won Joon Shim, Ana Tirapé, Jessica M. Vandenberg, Zeinab Zoveidadianpour, and Judith Weis A Call to Include Plastics in the Global Environment in the Class of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) PollutantsEnvironmental Science & Technology 2023 57 (22), 8185-8188  DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c02476

8. Doyle, B. and L.I. Bendell 2022. Use of shell hash to mitigate the acidification of intertidal sediments. Ecosphere. 

9. Maximiliano Cledon, Louis A Tremblay, Charles Griffiths , Mariem Fadhlaoui , Olivier Champeau , Marina Albentosa, Victoria Besada , Victor H. Fernandez, Christopher W. McKindsey, Leah Bendell, Bin Zhang, Zaul Garcia-Esquivel, Satinder K Brar, Pratik Kumar, Olivier Laroche, Patrice Couture. 2021. Trace metal residues in marine mussels: a global survey(ETCJ-Jul-21-00513) abs/10.1002/etc.5228. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

10. Juan José Alava Tamara Kazmiruk,* Tristan Douglas, Goetz Schuerholz, Bill Heath, Scott A. Flemming, Leah Bendell, and Mark C. Drever. 2021. Occurrence and size distribution of microplastics in mudflat sediments of the Cowichan/Koksilah Estuary, Canada S0025326X21010675. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 173

11. Moore, R.C., Noel, M., Etemadifar, A., Loseto, L., Posacka, A. , Bendell, L., Ross, P.S. 2021. Microplastics in Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) Prey: An Exploratory Assessment of Trophic Transfer in the Beaufort Sea. Science of the Total Environment j.scitotenv.2021.150201.

12. Fernandes, S., Farzaneh, S and L.I. Bendell. 2020 Abundance and distribution of beach litter with acutely toxic metal concentrations.  Marine Pollution Bulletin. 

13. Roberts, E. M., S. D. Stroshein, and L. I. Bendell. 2020. Change in sediment features and the macroinvertebrate community within an estuarine ecosystem two years post-restoration. Ecosphere 11(7):e03206. 10.1002/ecs2.3206 

14. Roberts, E. M., S. D. Stroshein, and L.I. Bendell. 2020. Restoration of an Estuary. Bull Ecol Soc Am 00(00):e01774. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1774

15. Bendell, L.I., E. LeCadre, W. Zhou. 2020. Use of bivalves for monitoring microplastic pollution within intertidal sediments.  PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232879. 

16. Moore R.C. , Loseto L., Noel M., Etemadifar A., Brewster J.D., Macphee S., …, Bendell, L. Ross, P.S. 2019. Microplastics in beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the Eastern Beaufort Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110723

17. Bendell, L.I., McKeachie, S. 2019. The demand for luxury protein is polluting the ocean with plastics. The Conversation.  

The Narwhale 

18. Bendell, L.I., Helm, P., Lagarde, F., Mallory, M., Maes, T., Duflos, G., Brunet, C and Lacroix, C. 2019.  Summary of the Scientific Workship-G7, Paris, October 14^th-15^th. Implementing monitoring of plastic and microplastic pollution.

19. Stewarding the Sound; The challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems. 2019. L.I. Bendell, P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood editors. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, New York.

20. Bendell, L.I. P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood.  2019. Introduction; The challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems. In Stewarding the Sound; The challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems.  L.I. Bendell, P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood editors. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, New York.

21. Bendell, L. I. 2019. Baynes Sound, An Ecologically and Biologically Sensitive Area. In Stewarding the Sound; The challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems.  L.I. Bendell, P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood editors. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, New York.

22. Bendell, L.I. P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood. 2019. Solutions to the challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems. In Stewarding the Sound; The challenge of managing sensitive ecosystems. L.I. Bendell, P. Gallaugher, S. McKeachie and L. Wood editors. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, New York.