Shaowu Bao

TL;DR: Results revealed that the majority abundance of the observed non-plastics were viscose cellulose fibers, and further studies are required to evaluate the environmental hazards of microplastics, especially as they may "act as a contaminant transporter" to the Bohai Sea ecosystem.

TL;DR: The source of microplastics in coastal areas is mainly from urban areas, such as wastewater discharge, rather than breakdown of larger marine debris drifting in the ocean, suggesting that ocean currents can be a good predictor of the fate and distribution ofmicroplastics at the sites sampled here.

TL;DR: This study highlights the need to understand more fully the interaction between temperature and salinity and the ability of these factors to change the behaviour of animals and also investigates the role of “spatially aggregating organisms”.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined changes in dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in coastal blackwater rivers under extreme flooding conditions in the southeastern United States and found that DOM aromaticity and abundance of humic substances significantly increased during the same period.