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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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Investigating the composition and distribution of microplastics surface biofilms in coral areas.
Limin Feng,Lei He,Shiqi Jiang,Jinjun Chen,Chunxia Zhou,Zhong-Ji Qian,Pengzhi Hong,Shengli Sun,Chengyong Li +8 more
TL;DR: This study can provide a new direction for the study of coral toxicology by MPs and provide basic data for the toxicology research of MPs.
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Microplastics pollution in mangrove ecosystems: A critical review of current knowledge and future directions.
TL;DR: This is the first review to present the current state of MPs pollution in mangrove ecosystems, specially including (i) the possible sources of MPs inMangrove areas and their pathways entering into this habitat; (ii) MP pollution in the different mangroves compartments (including surface seawater, sediments, and biotas); and (iii) factors influencing MPs distribution in manGrove areas.
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Foliar uptake and leaf-to-root translocation of nanoplastics with different coating charge in maize plants.
TL;DR: In this paper, a maize seedlings were exposed to carboxyl-modified polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-COOH) and amino-modified Polystyrene nanostructures(PS-NH2), respectively, in order to evaluate the foliar uptake, leaf-to-root translocation, and the influences of surface charge on the above processes and physiological effects to plants.
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Characteristics and retention of microplastics in the digestive tracts of fish from the Yellow Sea.
Xiaoxia Sun,Qingjie Li,Yongqiang Shi,Yongfang Zhao,Shan Zheng,Junhua Liang,Tao Liu,Ziyang Tian +7 more
TL;DR: The characteristics and retention of MPs in 19 fish species in the Yellow Sea were systematically studied and it is suggested that future studies be conducted to determine the ingestion rate, retention time, and egestion rate of MPs by fish to enable a rational risk assessment.
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Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in the surface water and sediment of two typical estuaries in Bohai Bay, China
TL;DR: The small size (particle diameter < 1 mm) of microplastics was a dominant feature, the most abundant shape was fiber and coloredmicroplastics were found widely in YDXE and HHE, and detailed information on microplastic pollution was provided to support their control and management.
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Microplastics in the marine environment
TL;DR: The mechanisms of generation and potential impacts of microplastics in the ocean environment are discussed, and the increasing levels of plastic pollution of the oceans are understood, it is important to better understand the impact of microPlastic in the Ocean food web.
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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments.
TL;DR: Global plastics production and the accumulation of plastic waste are documented, showing that trends in mega- and macro-plastic accumulation rates are no longer uniformly increasing and that the average size of plastic particles in the environment seems to be decreasing.
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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.