The abundance of microplastics in cnidaria and ctenophora in the North Sea.
Jellyfish
Microfibres
Microparticles
North Sea
Orkney
Shetland
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
04
02
2021
revised:
10
09
2021
accepted:
19
09
2021
pubmed:
15
10
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
14
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microplastic (MP) ingestion has been widely recorded in aquatic organisms, but few studies focus on cnidarians and ctenophores, which form a significant contribution to marine trophic interactions. Scyphozoans (Cyanea capillata, C. lamarckii and Aurelia aurita), hydrozoan (Cosmetira pilosella) and ctenophores (Beroe cucumis and Pleurobrachia bachei) collected opportunistically from Orkney, Shetland and the North Sea were thermally disintegrated, with a subsample of ingested plastics analysed using FTIR. A total of 1,986 MPs were counted (94% fibres), the majority (84.4%) in the four cnidarian species. Highest MP concentrations were recorded in B. cucumis (0.956 ml
Identifiants
pubmed: 34649204
pii: S0025-326X(21)01026-2
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112992
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
112992Informations de copyright
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