Trophic level transfer of microplastic: Mytilus edulis (L.) to Carcinus maenas (L.).

By P. Farrell, K. Nelson. Environmental Pollution, 2013

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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In Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood (2016, neutral): “Farrell and Nelson (2013) demonstrated that trophic transfer occurs between mussels and crabs.”
• Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat. (2017, background): “…previously been ingested by blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), were identified in the gut and haemolymph of the shore crab (Carcinus maenas) (Farrell and Nelson, 2013): caution was suggested in interpreting these results due to large variability in the amount of microspheres in tissues…”
• High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake. (2014, background): “If consumed, microplastics can thereby introduce toxins into the food chain, which can biomagnify to higher trophic levels (Farrell and Nelson, 2013; Setälä et al., 2014).”
• Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators. (2018, background): “Microplastics may also be ingested indirectly as a result of trophic transfer, whereby contaminated prey items are consumed by predators (Farrell and Nelson, 2013).”
• Microplastics in Taihu Lake, China. (2016, background): “of biota via direct and indirect pathways, including contact, uptake and digestion (Farrell and Nelson, 2013; Desforges et al., 2015; Long et al., 2015).”
• Microplastics are taken up by mussels (Mytilus edulis) and lugworms (Arenicola marina) living in natural habitats. (2015, background): “…of microplastic particles from the water column byM. edulis has been demonstrated in several laboratory feeding experiments (Browne et al., 2008; Farrell and Nelson, 2013; Thompson et al., 2004; von Moos et al., 2012), but also in wild populations (Mathalon and Hill, 2014; Van Cauwenberghe and…”
• Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, background): “416 Translocation of microplastics after ingestion was also demonstrated for the crab Carcinus maenas 417 (Farrell and Nelson, 2013).”