Interactions of Microplastics with Freshwater Biota

By C. Scherer, Annkatrin Weber, S. Lambert, M. Wagner. 2018

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The ubiquitous detection of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems promotes the concern for adverse impacts on freshwater ecosystems. The wide variety of material types, sizes, shapes, and physicochemical properties renders interactions with biota via multiple pathways probable.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Understanding How Microplastics Affect Marine Biota on the Cellular Level Is Important for Assessing Ecosystem Function: A Review (2019, background): “Microplastic ingestion has been described for many taxa of animals including plankton, invertebrates, fish, sea turtles, and marine mammals (Cole et al. 2013; Foekema et al. 2013; Schuyler et al. 2013; Hämer et al. 2014; Lusher et al. 2015; Scherer et al. 2018).”