Microplastics in sea-surface waters surrounding Sweden sampled by manta trawl and in-situ pump.

Baltic Sea Kattegat Microplastic sampling methods Plastic pollution Polyethylene Polypropylene Skagerrak

Journal

Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Apr 2020
Historique:
received: 21 10 2019
revised: 20 02 2020
accepted: 21 02 2020
entrez: 11 4 2020
pubmed: 11 4 2020
medline: 27 6 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Microplastics were sampled in open surface waters by using a manta trawl and an in-situ filtering pump. A total of 24 trawl samples and 11 pump samples were taken at 12 locations around Sweden. Overall, the concentration of microplastic particles was higher in pump samples compared to trawl samples. The median microplastic particle concentration was 0.04 particles per m

Identifiants

pubmed: 32275565
pii: S0025-326X(20)30137-5
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111019
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Microplastics 0
Plastics 0
Water Pollutants, Chemical 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

111019

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Christine Schönlau (C)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.

Therese M Karlsson (TM)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Kristineberg Marine Research Station, 45178 Fiskebäckskil, Sweden.

Anna Rotander (A)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.

Helena Nilsson (H)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.

Magnus Engwall (M)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden.

Bert van Bavel (B)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden; Norwegian Institute for Water Research, NIVA, Department of Environmental Chemistry, Oslo, Norway.

Anna Kärrman (A)

Örebro University, MTM Research Centre, Fakultetsgatan 1, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden. Electronic address: anna.karrman@oru.se.

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