Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus "
There is evidence and serious concern that microplastics have reached the most remote regions of the planet, but how far have they travelled in terrestrial ecosystems? This study presents the first field-based evidence of plastic ingestion by a common and central component of Antarctic terrestrial f...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5025788.v1 2023-05-15T13:55:45+02:00 Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " Bergami, Elisa Rota, Emilia Caruso, Tancredi Birarda, Giovanni Vaccari, Lisa Corsi, Ilaria 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5025788.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Plastics_everywhere_first_evidence_of_polystyrene_fragments_inside_the_common_Antarctic_collembolan_i_Cryptopygus_antarcticus_i_/5025788/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0093 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5025788 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Environmental Science Ecology FOS Biological sciences Collection article 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5025788.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0093 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5025788 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z There is evidence and serious concern that microplastics have reached the most remote regions of the planet, but how far have they travelled in terrestrial ecosystems? This study presents the first field-based evidence of plastic ingestion by a common and central component of Antarctic terrestrial food webs, the collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus . A large piece of polystyrene (PS) foam (34 × 31 × 5 cm) covered by microalgae, moss, lichens and microfauna was found in a fellfield along the shores of the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island). The application of an improved enzymatic digestion coupled with Fourier transform infrared microscopy (µ-FTIR), unequivocally detected traces of PS (less than 100 µm) in the gut of the collembolans associated with the PS foam and documented their ability to ingest plastic. Plastics are thus entering the short Antarctic terrestrial food webs and represent a new potential stressor to polar ecosystems already facing climate change and increasing human activities. Future research should explore the effects of plastics on the composition, structure and functions of polar terrestrial biota. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic antarcticus Cryptopygus antarcticus King George Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic King George Island Fildes ENVELOPE(-58.817,-58.817,-62.217,-62.217) Fildes peninsula ENVELOPE(-58.948,-58.948,-62.182,-62.182) |
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There is evidence and serious concern that microplastics have reached the most remote regions of the planet, but how far have they travelled in terrestrial ecosystems? This study presents the first field-based evidence of plastic ingestion by a common and central component of Antarctic terrestrial food webs, the collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus . A large piece of polystyrene (PS) foam (34 × 31 × 5 cm) covered by microalgae, moss, lichens and microfauna was found in a fellfield along the shores of the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island). The application of an improved enzymatic digestion coupled with Fourier transform infrared microscopy (µ-FTIR), unequivocally detected traces of PS (less than 100 µm) in the gut of the collembolans associated with the PS foam and documented their ability to ingest plastic. Plastics are thus entering the short Antarctic terrestrial food webs and represent a new potential stressor to polar ecosystems already facing climate change and increasing human activities. Future research should explore the effects of plastics on the composition, structure and functions of polar terrestrial biota. |
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Bergami, Elisa Rota, Emilia Caruso, Tancredi Birarda, Giovanni Vaccari, Lisa Corsi, Ilaria |
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Bergami, Elisa Rota, Emilia Caruso, Tancredi Birarda, Giovanni Vaccari, Lisa Corsi, Ilaria |
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Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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Supplementary material from "Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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supplementary material from "plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common antarctic collembolan cryptopygus antarcticus " |
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