Microplastics in marine biota: A review

MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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Review

Ugwu, Kevin¹  Herrera, Alicia¹  Gomez, May¹ 

[1] Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, IU ECOAQUA, Marine Ecophysiol Grp EOMAR, Campus Univ Tafira, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain

关键词: Microplastics;    Marine vertebrates;    Turtles;    Sea birds;    Marine mammals;    Fish;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112540

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Plastics are the most important component in marine debris. In turn, within plastics, microplastics (<5 mm) are those that most affect marine biota. Thus, this review has as its main objective to show the current state of studies of microplastics, as well as to determine the groups of vertebrates most affected by microplastics, and the type and predominant color of microplastics. For this research, we review a total of 132 articles, from 2010 to May of 2020. Our results show that the group more affected are turtles with 88% of the specimens contaminated by microplastics and median of 121.73 particles/individue. The predominant type is fibers (67.3%), polymer is polyethylene (27.3%), size is less than 2 mm (73.6%), and color is blue (32.9%).

【 授权许可】

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