High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake.

By Christopher M. Free, O. Jensen, S. Mason, M. Eriksen, N. Williamson, Bazartseren Boldgiv. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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2. Huahong Shi
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4. L. Su
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Citations in the corpus

• (Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects. (2016, background): “, 2015a), an assertion that is supported by recent works reporting the presence of microplastics in riverbed sediments (Castañeda et al., 2014; Free et al., 2014; Imhof et al., 2013; Zbyszewski et al., 2014).”
• Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “Large amounts of secondary microplastics (or microplastics derived from fragmentation of other plastics) were found along the shores of sparsely populated mountain lakes, where there was scarce primary microplastic pollution (Free et al., 2014).”
• Finding the missing piece of the aquatic plastic pollution puzzle: Interaction between primary producers and microplastics (2017, background): “These farming communities are typically located close to major human settlements, which Free et al. (2014) found to be a major driving factor for microplastic pollution even when the general geographical area is considered remote and rural.”
• Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, background): “…Lechner et al. 2014 River Sediments Germany 34–64 items/kg dry wt. Visual identification Wagner et al. 2014 Hovsgol lake Mongolia 20,000 items/km2; 0.3–5 mm size pellets Free et al. 2014 Thompson (2016) revealed the presence of synthetic microplastic fibers from domestic washing machines.”
• Beyond the ocean : Contamination of freshwater ecosystems with (micro-) plastic particles (2015, background): “197 In a remote mountain Lake (Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia), an average density of 20,264 particles/km2 198 (997 – 44,435 particles/km2, min-max values) was observed ([35]).”
• Microplastics pollution in inland freshwaters of China: A case study in urban surface waters of Wuhan, China. (2017, background): “, 2013), and Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia (Free et al., 2014).”
• Analysis of environmental microplastics by vibrational microspectroscopy: FTIR, Raman or both? (2016, methodology): “Microplastics quantification is often performed by visual methods only [20, 24, 38].”
• Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. (2017, background): “412 Water body type Sample type Sample location and description Study findings (reported units) Study findings (converted units) Study Lake Water Great Lakes (USA) 16 cm sampling depth Average particle concentration 43,000 km-2 Average 0.00027 particles L-1 Eriksen et al. (2013) Lake Water Lake Hovs”