Terrestrial ecologists should stop ignoring plastic pollution in the Anthropocene time.

Autor: Malizia A; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Casilla de Correo 34, CP 4107 Yerba Buena, Argentina. Electronic address: agustinamalizia@yahoo.com., Monmany-Garzia AC; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Casilla de Correo 34, CP 4107 Yerba Buena, Argentina.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2019 Jun 10; Vol. 668, pp. 1025-1029. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Mar 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.044
Abstrakt: The massive production of plastic started in mid 20th century. Today, only 60 years later and despite its obvious benefits, plastic pollution is ubiquitous, influencing all global environments and the planet's biota, including human-well-being. Plastic pollution may interact with other global change drivers, having large-scale, remote and long-lasting effects. Here we highlight that plastic pollution should be considered a main topic for global change research in the 21st century, especially among terrestrial ecologists at understudied continental regions such as South America.
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