Freshwater microplastics : emerging environmental contaminants?

• Main Authors: Wagner, Martin, Lambert, Scott
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: ddc:360; ddc: Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45178; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-451787; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61615-5; http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/45178/10.1007_F978-3-319-61615-5.pdf

Historically – if one can say that given the infancy of the field – environmental plastic debris has been the baby of marine research. Driven by the rediscovery of long forgotten, 1970s studies on the occurrence of small plastic fragments (today termed microplastics) in the oceans, oceanographers and marine biologists resurrected the topic in the early 2000s. Since then, the field has rapidly expanded and established that plastics are ubiquitous in the marine system, from the Arctic to Antarctic and from the surface to the deep sea. .