The abundance of microplastics in cnidaria and ctenophora in the North Sea.


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
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

112992

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Ria Devereux (R)

Institute of Life & Earth Sciences, Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK; Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of East London, Docklands campus, 4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD, UK. Electronic address: deanldrdld@msn.com.

Mark G J Hartl (MGJ)

Institute of Life & Earth Sciences, Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.

Mike Bell (M)

International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT), Heriot-Watt University, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3AW, UK.

Angela Capper (A)

International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT), Heriot-Watt University, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3AW, UK; CQUniversity, Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre (CMERC), Gladstone, QLD 4680, Australia.

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