Widespread distribution of microplastics in subsurface seawater in the NE Pacific Ocean.

By J. Desforges, M. Galbraith, N. Dangerfield, P. Ross. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• (Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects. (2016, background): “In water, ship-generated litter or disposed off after recreational activities, as well as lost or carelessly handled in fishing fleets (plastic fishing gear) are also important sources of plastics in aquatic systems (Browne et al., 2007; Claessens et al., 2013; Desforges et al., 2014; EUCommision, 2”
• Ingestion of Microplastics by Zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (2015, methodology): “It has become increasingly evident that the concentration of microplastics in the marine environment increases with decreasing particle size as a result of the progressive breakdown of debris (Andrady 2011; Cózar et al. 2014; Desforges et al. 2014).”
• High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake. (2014, result): “These patterns are consistent with studies of microplastics in nearshore marine environments, which indicate that microplastic density is governed by prevailing surface circulation, wind, and proximity to urban centers (e.g., Browne et al., 2010, 2011; Doyle et al., 2011; Desforges et al., 2014; Lei”
• Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates (2015, background): “Common techniques and mesh sized used for MP sampling at sea limit measurements to debris bigger than 333 µm (Deltares, 2011), however data on smaller MP particles are becoming available (Desforges et al., 2014, Mohamed Nor et al., 2014).”
• Microplastics in bivalves and their habitat in relation to shellfish aquaculture proximity in coastal British Columbia, Canada (2019, background): “They have been documented to occur in coastal British Columbia (BC), Canada, both in seawater, and in the bodies of zooplankton (Desforges et al. 2014, 2015).”
• Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “, 2011; Ivar do Sul and Costa, 2014), including Canada (Desforges et al., 2014), Brazil (Santana et al.”
• Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Distribution, Interactions and Effects (2015, background): “This is also reflected in offshore subsurface waters which had 4–27 times less plastics than coastal sites in the northeast Pacific (Desforges et al. 2014).”
• Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research. (2017, neutral): “Substantial quantities of microplastics are already present in the global marine ecosystem (Liebezeit and Dubaish, 2012; Collignon et al., 2012; Desforges et al., 2014), from the tropics to the poles, including in Arctic sea ice (Obbard et al., 2014; Lusher, 2015, Bergmann et al., 2017; Tekman et…”