Microplastics in Freshwater: What Is the News from the World?
Plastic has become a "hot topic" for aquatic ecosystems' conservation together with other issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Indeed, plastics may detrimentally affect habitats and biota. Small plastics, called microplastics, are more easily taken up by freshwater org...
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ftopenaccessrep:oai:zenodo.org:181492 2024-05-12T07:55:51+00:00 Microplastics in Freshwater: What Is the News from the World? Cera, Alessandra Cesarini, Giulia Scalici, Massimiliano 2020-07-09 https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/181492 https://doi.org/10.3390/d12070276 eng eng url:https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/itmirror https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/181492 doi:10.3390/d12070276 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by Nature and Landscape Conservation Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Ecological Modeling Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/article publication-article 2020 ftopenaccessrep https://doi.org/10.3390/d12070276 2024-04-17T15:14:40Z Plastic has become a "hot topic" for aquatic ecosystems' conservation together with other issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Indeed, plastics may detrimentally affect habitats and biota. Small plastics, called microplastics, are more easily taken up by freshwater organisms, causing negative effects on growth, reproduction, predatory performance, etc. Since available information on microplastics in freshwater are fragmentary, the aim of this review is twofold: (i) to show, analyse, and discuss data on the microplastics concentration in freshwater and (ii) to provide the main polymers contaminating freshwater for management planning. A bibliographic search collected 158 studies since 2012, providing the scientific community with one of the largest data sets on microplastics in freshwater. Contamination is reported in all continents except Antarctica, but a lack of information is still present. Lentic waters are generally more contaminated than lotic waters, and waters are less contaminated than sediments, suggested to be sinks. The main contaminating polymers are polypropylene and polyethylene for sediment and water, while polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate are mainly found in biota. Future research is encouraged (1) to achieve a standardised protocol for monitoring, (2) to identify sources and transport routes (including primary or secondary origin), and (3) to investigate trophic transfer, especially from benthic invertebrates. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository Diversity 12 7 276 |
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Plastic has become a "hot topic" for aquatic ecosystems' conservation together with other issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Indeed, plastics may detrimentally affect habitats and biota. Small plastics, called microplastics, are more easily taken up by freshwater organisms, causing negative effects on growth, reproduction, predatory performance, etc. Since available information on microplastics in freshwater are fragmentary, the aim of this review is twofold: (i) to show, analyse, and discuss data on the microplastics concentration in freshwater and (ii) to provide the main polymers contaminating freshwater for management planning. A bibliographic search collected 158 studies since 2012, providing the scientific community with one of the largest data sets on microplastics in freshwater. Contamination is reported in all continents except Antarctica, but a lack of information is still present. Lentic waters are generally more contaminated than lotic waters, and waters are less contaminated than sediments, suggested to be sinks. The main contaminating polymers are polypropylene and polyethylene for sediment and water, while polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate are mainly found in biota. Future research is encouraged (1) to achieve a standardised protocol for monitoring, (2) to identify sources and transport routes (including primary or secondary origin), and (3) to investigate trophic transfer, especially from benthic invertebrates. |
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