Microplastics in the seas

By K. L. Law, Richard C. Thompson. Science, 2014

1,259 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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2. Dongqi Yang
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In Pollution

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7. Richard C. Thompson
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Citations in the corpus

• Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum‐based plastics: how far are we? (2017, background): “These are often hydrophobic compounds with a high affinity to microplastics, thereby entering the food chains when microplastics are ingested by marine wildlife (Andrady, 2011, 2015e; Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013; Law and Thompson, 2014).”
• Elevated levels of ingested plastic in a high Arctic seabird, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (2015, background): “The global plastic industry is continuously expanding (Plastics Europe 2013), the use of disposable plastic products persists (WRAP 2014), and it is likely that the already significant amounts of plastic litter entering the marine environment will increase (Law and Thompson 2014).”
• Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems (2021, background): “As the particle size reduces, it reverberates in the elevation of potential harms of microplastics, but its adverse effects in marine organisms are not well defined (Law and Thompson 2014).”
• Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “2 Microplastic sources The rate of fragmentation and degradation of plastics is unknown even for marine environments (Law and Thompson, 2014).”
• Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects (2016, background): “However, it has been questioned, if the transport of sorbed pollutants by microplastics is a relevant factor contributing to accumulation and adverse effects in the environment, i.e. if microplastics transport pollutants in sufficiently high concentrations to biota [99, 187].”
• Microplastics in commercial bivalves from China. (2015, background): “Microplastics, defined as plastic materials or fragments 5 mm, are most likely the most numerically abundant plastic debris items in the ocean today (Law and Thompson, 2014).”
• Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions. (2017, background): “Thus, the smaller plastics particles are easier to ingest, thereby increasing the susceptibility, enhanced leaching, desorption and adsorption potentials of the microplastics (Law and Thompson, 2014; Shim and Thompson, 2015).”
• Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: New Views of an Old Ocean (2017, background): “Open ocean ecosystems like those represented by Station ALOHA are characterized by warm surface waters (>24 C) throughout the year that establishes a permanent low-density cap, isolating the upper layer ( 0–100 m) from the water column below (Figure 3).”
• Trophic transfer of microplastics does not affect fish personality (2017, background): “Their small size and variable densities mean they occur throughout marine (Law & Thompson, 2014) and freshwater (Eerkes-Medrano, Thompson, & Aldridge, 2015) environments and are bioavailable to a broad range of organisms (Thompson et al., 2004).”
• Finding the missing piece of the aquatic plastic pollution puzzle: Interaction between primary producers and microplastics (2017, background): “Recent reviews indicate that microscopic plastic debris are indeed ubiquitous around the world’s oceans (Moore 2008; Law and Thompson 2014).”