Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris.

By D. Lobelle, M. Cunliffe. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2011

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. P. Lindeque
4. T. Galloway
5. A. Andrady
6. P. Ryan
7. P. Hollman
8. N. Prinz

In Ocean Engineering

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. A. Andrady
4. P. Lindeque
5. F. Regoli
6. C. Avio
7. S. Gorbi
8. T. Galloway

In Pollution

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. F. Regoli
4. C. Avio
5. T. Galloway
6. P. Lindeque
7. A. Andrady
8. S. Gorbi

Citations in the corpus

• Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris? (2015, background): “…drifting debris becomes fouled by a variety of marine organisms, including a biofilm of algae and other microscopic organisms as well as macroscopic epibiota (e.g. barnacles, bryozoa, polychaetes and seaweeds) (Ye and Andrady 1991, Railkin 2004, Artham et al 2009, Lobelle and Cunliffe 2011).”
• Microbial degradation and deterioration of polyethylene – A review (2014, background): “These limitations are avoided by the second approach, in which the use of complex environments and microbial communities are applied (Albertsson, 1980; Albertsson et al., 1987; Karlsson et al., 1988; Pegram and Andrady, 1989; Albertsson and Karlsson, 1990; Orhan and Büyükgüngör, 2000; Chiellini et a”
• Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture (2017, background): “Processes like biofouling and the colonization of organisms onto the plastic surface increase the weight of particles, thus accelerating their sinking to bottom sediments (Lobelle and Cunliffe, 2011); also degradation, fragmentation and the leaching of additives can change the density of objects and”
• Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Distribution, Interactions and Effects (2015, background): “Likewise, plastics serve as a floating habitat for bacterial colonisation (Lobelle and Cunliffe 2011).”
• Dangerous hitchhikers? Evidence for potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. on microplastic particles. (2016, background): “Also Lobelle and Cunliffe (2011) proved biofilm formation on plastics after 1 week of incubation in seawater via quantitative biofilm assays.”
• Persistence of Plastic Litter in the Oceans (2015, background): “exposure of the plastic results in the formation of a surface biofilm (Lobelle and Cunliffe 2011) that is rapidly colonized by algae and other marine biota including encrusting organisms that increase the density of the plastic causing it to sink in seawater (Thangavelu et al.”