Drifting plastic debris as a potential vector for dispersing Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) species
By M. Masó, E. Garcés, F. Pagés, J. Camp. 2003
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Macroscopic observations of floating plastic debris collected at several places along the Catalan coast (northwestern Mediterranean) showed conspicuous green-yellow patches adhered to them. The microscopic examination of these patches showed that they were constituted mainly of benthic diatoms and small flagellates ( Ostreopsis sp. and Coolia sp., resting cysts of unidentified dinoflagellates and both temporary cysts and vegetative cells of Alexandrium taylori were also found. Plastic debris is considered to be one of the most serious problems affecting the marine environment. We suggest drifting plastic debris as a potential vector for microalgae dispersal.
Subfields: Pollution, Small Animals
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- Marine litter as habitat and dispersal vector (2015, background): “P Med str Masó et al. (2003)”
- Understanding How Microplastics Affect Marine Biota on the Cellular Level Is Important for Assessing Ecosystem Function: A Review (2019, background): “Microplastics can thus become a vector for non-ciliate pathogens, such as viruses (Masó et al. 2003; Pham et al. 2012) and pathogenic bacteria (Viršek et al.”
- Microbial colonization of microplastics in the Caribbean Sea (2020, background): “Plasticassociated HAB formers were first described in Masó et al. (2003), who found temporary cysts of Alexandrium taylori that due to their sticky nature adhered to plastic culture bottles.”
- Drifting plastic and its consequences for sessile organism dispersal in the Atlantic Ocean (2005, background): “Organisms ranging from dinoflagellate algae (Masó et al. 2003) to iguanas (Censky et al. 1998) have now been observed to raft rubbish in Atlantic waters.”
- The ecology of rafting in the marine environment. I: The floating substrata (2004, background): “…evolutionary history floating objects have been almost exclusively of natural origin, during recent times human activities have contributed to an increase in abundance of some natural substrata (e.g., wood) and to the introduction of new substrata such as plastics (Barnes 2002, Masó et al. 2003).”
- Dangerous hitchhikers? Evidence for potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. on microplastic particles. (2016, background): “In this context, it was also hypothesized, that microplastics may function as a vector for dispersion of invasive species including toxic algae but also pathogenic organisms (Masó et al., 2003; Zettler et al., 2013).”
- A phylogeographical study of the toxic benthic dinoflagellate genus Ostreopsis Schmidt (2010, background): “The dispersal dynamics of benthic protists throughout large basins may depend on passive transport of vegetative and/or resting cysts on floating and drifting objects, such as plastics or wood (Barnes, 2002; Masó et al., 2003), or in the ballast water of ships (Hallegraeff, 1993).”
- Marine litter, future prospects for research (2015, unknown): “Although microorganismsandfishpathogensmayfixonvarioussurface areasincludingplastics(Harrisonetal.,2011;Phametal.,2012), toxicdinoflagellateswereshowntobetransportedonplastics asfarbackas2003(Masoetal.,2003)andparticledispersion mayfavorthedispersionofthesespecies,whichmaybetoxicto humans.”