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Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions
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The sources and global distribution of microplastics in the environment, the fate and impact on marine biota, especially the food chain are described and the control measures discussed are those mapped out by both national and international environmental organizations for combating the impact from microplastic pollution.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 1487 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics.read more
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Ingestion of Microplastic Fibres, But Not Microplastic Beads, Impacts Growth Rates in the Tropical House Cricket Gryllodes Sigillatus
Serita Fudlosid,Marshall W. Ritchie,Matthew James Muzzatti,Jane E. Allison,Jennifer F. Provencher,Heath A. MacMillan +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a tropical house crickets (Gryllodes sigillatus) were fed a standard diet containing different concentrations of either fluorescent polyethylene microplastic beads (75-105 μm), or untreated Polyethylene terephthalate microfibers (<5 mm) until they died or reached adulthood (approximately 8 weeks).
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Behavioural Mechanisms of Microplastic Pollutants in Marine Ecosystem: Challenges and Remediation Measurements
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of major contributors of microplastics in marine environment along with their classification are brought out, including physical, chemical and biological behaviours together with their ecological and toxicological impacts on marine ecosystem are illustrated.
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Assessing the relationship between the abundance of microplastics in sediments, surface waters, and fish in the Iran southern shores.
Ali Agharokh,Mojtaba S. Taleshi,Mehdi Bibak,Majid Rasta,Hor Torabi Jafroudi,Belén Rubio Armesto +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the microplastic pollution in sediments, surface waters, and four fish species in the northern coast of the Persian Gulf during December 2019, and found no correlation between MP abundance in surface water, sediment, and fish samples.
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Marine Litter on the Coast of the Algarve: Main Sources and Distribution Using a Modeling Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the operational modelling system of Algarve (SOMA) was combined with a Lagrangian particle-tracking model and blended with scarce litter monitoring data, to provide first insights into the distribution and accumulation of floating marine litter on the Algarves coast.
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Biological and Ecological Impacts of Plastic Debris in Aquatic Ecosystems
TL;DR: The potential for microplastics to spread antimicrobial resistance and a summary of current knowledge concerning wider ecological impacts of macro-and microplastic debris such as changes to assemblage composition and structure and effects on nutrient cycling and primary productivity as discussed by the authors.
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Microplastics in the marine environment
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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments.
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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review.
TL;DR: Ingestion of microplastics has been demonstrated in a range of marine organisms, a process which may facilitate the transfer of chemical additives or hydrophobic waterborne pollutants to biota.
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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification
TL;DR: This review of 68 studies compares the methodologies used for the identification and quantification of microplastics from the marine environment and suggests standardized sampling procedures which allow the spatiotemporal comparison ofmicroplastic abundance across marine environments.
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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
Marcus Eriksen,Laurent Lebreton,Henry S. Carson,Martin Thiel,Charles J. Moore,Jose C. Borerro,François Galgani,Peter G. Ryan,Julia Reisser +8 more
TL;DR: The total number of plastic particles and their weight floating in the world's oceans is estimated from 24 expeditions across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows and visual survey transects of large plastic debris.