The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review.

By Stephanie L Wright, Richard C. Thompson, T. Galloway. Environmental Pollution, 2013

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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Sydney Harbour: a review of anthropogenic impacts on the biodiversity and ecosystem function of one of the world’s largest natural harbours (2015, background): “Plastics – synthetic organic polymers –make upmost of themarine litter worldwide (Derraik 2002) and reach themarine environment by accidental release and indiscriminate discard (Derraik 2002; Wright et al. 2013).”
Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know (2014, background): “MP may be ingested by various organisms ranging from plankton and fish to birds and even mammals, and accumulate throughout the aquatic food web [4].”
Interactions of Microplastics with Freshwater Biota (2018, background): “Additionally, further ingestion-related effects include blockages and injuries to the digestive tract [4], inflammatory response [5], and desorption of xenobiotics [6].”
Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, background): “Recently, the ubiquitous presence of microplastics has drawn the attention of ecotoxicologists on its safety and toxicity (Wright et al. 2013) and its impact on biota, a possibility for constituting the link between the plastics and the routes of invasive species which is a serious environmental…”
Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates (2015, background): “For example, an increase in microplastic concentrations has been reported in the Pacific Subtropical Gyre over the last 30 years (Wright et al., 2013).”
Microplastics in Taihu Lake, China. (2016, background): “In particular, the small-sized plastic particles that originate from manufacturing (primary sources) and the degradation of large items (secondary sources) are prone to accumulate in the environment and may pose an unpredictable influence on the ecosystem (Cole et al., 2011; Wright et al., 2013).”
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Challenges and Threats to Aquatic Organisms (2020, background): “Biotechnology Nanotechnology Marine biology Zoology Microplastics Level 6 Aquatic invertebrates Accumulate in aquatic invertebrates and cause blockages throughout the digestive system that repress feeding [59]”
Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions. (2017, background): “Also, the color of the polystyrene microplastic particles could have contributed to their likelihood of ingestion as color is one of the characteristics of microplastics that attract prey (Wright et al., 2013).”
Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research (2016, background): “Most have focused on invertebrates in controlled laboratory experiments and none focus on the higher trophic level organisms such as marine turtles (Wright et al., 2013).”
Quantitative investigation of the mechanisms of microplastics and nanoplastics toward zebrafish larvae locomotor activity. (2017, background): “According to our knowledge, the limited vector studies in aquatic organisms are depend on ingestion (Wright et al., 2013; Koelmans et al., 2016).”
A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “The physical impacts of microplastics on marine biota were reviewed by Wright et al. (2013).”