Microplastic ingestion by zooplankton in Terengganu coastal waters, southern South China Sea
| Autor: | Roswati Md Amin, Erqa Shazira Sohaimi, Zainudin Bachok, Sabiqah Tuan Anuar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
China Microplastics Particle (ecology) 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Zooplankton Abundance (ecology) Animals 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Polychaete biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology fungi Malaysia biology.organism_classification Pollution Shrimp Environmental science Seawater Plastic pollution Plastics Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Marine Pollution Bulletin. 150:110616 |
| ISSN: | 0025-326X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110616 |
| Popis: | This study investigates the presence of microplastics in surface seawater and zooplankton at five different locations off the Terengganu coast in Malaysia, southern South China Sea. A total of 983 microplastic particles, with an average abundance of 3.3 particles L−1 were found in surface seawater. An average of one plastic particle was detected in 130 individuals from 6 groups of zooplankton. These groups include fish larvae, cyclopoid, shrimps, polychaete, calanoid and chaetognath where they ingested 0.14, 0.13, 0.01, 0.007, 0.005 and 0.003 particle per individual, respectively. Microplastics in the form of fragments are the most common type of ingested microplastics that ranged between 0.02 mm (cyclopoid) – 1.68 mm (shrimp and zoea). Contrastingly, fibers, which are identified as polyamide are the main type of microplastics that dominate in seawater. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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