Ingestion of microplastics by meiobenthic communities in small-scale microcosm experiments.
Chironomid
Copepod
Nematode
Polystyrene bead
Rotifer
Sediment
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:
01 Dec 2020
01 Dec 2020
Historique:
received:
07
05
2020
revised:
23
07
2020
accepted:
25
07
2020
pubmed:
9
8
2020
medline:
8
10
2020
entrez:
9
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microplastics have been detected in many different environments. Nematodes are a rife meiofaunal taxon and occupy an important trophic position in benthic food webs. Laboratory-based ingestion experiments have demonstrated the susceptibility of single nematode species to microplastic uptake. However, the determinants of ingestion by meiofaunal assemblages, especially those of nematodes, have yet to be fully examined. We therefore conducted a microcosm study in which field-collected freshwater sediment was spiked with fluorescent polystyrene (PS) beads (1.0, 3.0 and 6.0 μm) in concentrations of 10
Identifiants
pubmed: 32763610
pii: S0048-9697(20)34805-1
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141276
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Microplastics
0
Plastics
0
Polystyrenes
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
141276Informations de copyright
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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.