Contamination of beach sediments of a subalpine lake with microplastic particles.

By H. Imhof, N. Ivleva, Johannes Schmid, Reinhard Niessner, Christian Laforsch. Current Biology, 2013

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Interactions of Microplastics with Freshwater Biota (2018, background): “magna, Notodromas monacha) feed readily on secondary, irregularly shaped MPs [17, 31] with different toxicological profiles (see Sect.”
(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).”
Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, background): “In Lake Garda, concentrations around 100 items/m2 were detected in southern shores and around 1100 items/m2 in northern sediments [53], while in the Laurentian Great Lakes the concentration of MPs ranged from 0 to 34 plastic fragments/m2 at the shoreline of Lake Huron and from 0.”
High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake. (2014, background): “A handful of recent studies have examined microplastics in lakeshore sediments (Zbyszewski and Corcoran, 2011; Imhof et al., 2013), pelagic microplastics in rivers (Dubaish and Liebezeit 2013) and lakes (Faure et al., 2012, 2013; Eriksen et al., 2013a;)”
Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, methodology): “Greater than 5 mm size particles were also recorded from Lake Geneva and Garda (Faure et al. 2012; Imhof et al. 2013).”
Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. (2017, background): “350 A study carried out on lake beaches by Imhof et al (2013) measured microplastics found in 351 sediments of two beaches on the north and south shores of Lake Garda (Italy).”
Beyond the ocean : Contamination of freshwater ecosystems with (micro-) plastic particles (2015, background): “110 Concentrations varied from 1 to 7 particles/L ([9]), the predominant polymer was PS.”
First evidence of microplastics in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia (2016, background): “Plastic pollution in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America has been well studied (Driedger et al., 2015; Eriksen et al., 2013; Zbyszewski and Corcoran, 2011; Zbyszewski et al., 2014), and other freshwater habitats have also been the subject to investigation, e.g. Lake Hovsgol in Mongolia (Free”