Microplastics pollution along the Lebanese coast (Eastern Mediterranean Basin): Occurrence in surface water, sediments and biota samples.
Coastal landfill
Filter-feeders
Levantine Basin
Micro-Raman
Microplastics
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019
Historique:
received:
11
07
2019
revised:
13
08
2019
accepted:
14
08
2019
pubmed:
24
8
2019
medline:
1
2
2020
entrez:
24
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Mediterranean Sea is the largest semi-enclosed sea and one of the worst affected regional seas with sub-basin scale heterogeneity in plastics concentration. Few studies on microplastics (MPs) pollution have been conducted in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean basin. This study aims to evaluate, for the first time, the MPs pollution of the Lebanese coast (Levantine Basin) as well as the most common polymers found, and to assess the potential role of coastal landfills in this pollution. Two important seafood species that are wholly consumed by the Lebanese community: the European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus, and the spiny oysters, Spondylus spinosus, were sampled in three different sites englobing the littoral (Tripoli, Beirut and Sidon). Sea water and sediment samples were also collected from the same sites. Results showed different patterns of MPs concentration in the analyzed matrices: Sidon water sample was highly contaminated in MPs (6.7 MPs/m
Identifiants
pubmed: 31442726
pii: S0048-9697(19)33883-5
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133933
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Microplastics
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
133933Informations de copyright
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