Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Authors: Bergami, E., Rota, E., Caruso, T., Birarda, G., Vaccari, L., Corsi, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: expanded foam; maritime Antarctic; microplastic; springtail; terrestrial food web; µ-FTIR; Antarctic; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Antarc*; antarcticus; Cryptopygus antarcticus; Springtail
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1114614; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0093

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...