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Publications 2020-2026

Books

1. Bendell, L.I. 2025. Ecotoxicology; a case based approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Research papers

1. Zeinab Zoveidadian Pour, Pamela Brunswick, Oxana Blajkevitch, Taylor Filewood, Dayue Shang, Robert W. Elner, Tristan J. Douglas, Goetz Schuerholz, Leah Bendell, Juan José Alava, Mark C. Drever. 2026 Fatty acid profiles and microplastic pollution in intertidal biofilm at the Cowichan-Koksilah estuary, Canada Estuaries and Coasts. ESCO-D-25-00093R3. In press.

2. Juan José Alava, Zeinab Zoveidadianpour, Tamara N. Kazmiruk, Tristan Douglas, Goetz Schuerholz, Nastenka Calle, Bernhard H.J. Juurlink, William A. Heath, Mark C. Drever, Leah Bendell. Assessing fiberglass particles in intertidal biofilm and sediments at an anthropogenically impacted estuary in Canada's west coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 224, 2026, 119187, ISSN 0025-326X, .  (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X25016637)

3. 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, .

4. 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,

5. 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.

6. 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. 

7. 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

8. 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) Pollutants Environmental Science & Technology 2023 57 (22), 8185-8188  DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c02476

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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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.

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

14. 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

15. Roberts, E. M., S. D. Stroshein, and L.I. Bendell. 2020. Restoration of an Estuary. Bull Ecol Soc Am 00(00):e01774.

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