Microplastics in the first-year sea ice of the Novik Bay, Sea of Japan.

Autor: Chubarenko I; Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Electronic address: irina_chubarenko@mail.ru., Lazaryuk A; Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia., Orlova T; Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia., Lobchuk O; Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Raguso C; Earth and Environmental Science Department (DISAT), University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza Della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy., Zyubin A; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia., Lasagni M; Earth and Environmental Science Department (DISAT), University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza Della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy., Saliu F; Earth and Environmental Science Department (DISAT), University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza Della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Marine pollution bulletin [Mar Pollut Bull] 2022 Dec; Vol. 185 (Pt A), pp. 114236. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 17.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114236
Abstrakt: Sea ice is heavily contaminated with microplastics particles (MPs, <5 mm). First-year sea ice cores (38-41 cm thick) were taken in the beginning of spring in a narrow populated bay of the Sea of Japan. Two ice cores were examined (layer-by-layer, excluding surface) for MPs content: one using μ-FTIR for 25-300 μm (SMPs), and another one - with visual+Raman identification for 300-5000 μm particles (LMPs). The integral (25-5000 μm) bulk mean abundance of MPs was found to be 428 items/L of meltwater, with fibers making 19 % in SMPs size range and 59 % in LMPs. Integral mean mass of MPs was estimated in 34.6 mg/L, with 99.6 % contribution from fragments of LMPs. Comparison with simple fragmentation models confirms deficit of SMPs (especially of fibers in size range 150-300 μm), suggested to result from their leakage with brine. Multivariate statistical analysis indicates strong positive correlation of large fiber (>300 μm) counts and ice salinity.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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