Using Boops boops (osteichthyes) to assess microplastic ingestion in the Mediterranean Sea
| Autor: | Alice Sbrana, Luca Palazzo, Delphine Gambaiani, Ana Pérez-del Olmo, Jessica Martin, Marco Matiddi, Elena Mauriño, Helen Kaberi, Cecilia Silvestri, Catherine Tsangaris, Giuseppe Andrea de Lucia, Alex Aguilar, Ester Skylaki, Nikoletta Digka, Asunción Borrell, Juan Antonio Raga, Odei Garcia-Garin, Tommaso Valente, Claude Miaud, Paprapach Wongdontree, Morgana Vighi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Microplastics marine litter microlitter 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Mediterranean sea Abundance (ecology) Marine debris Animals bioindicator 0105 earth and related environmental sciences fish biology Greece 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology bogue Boops boops biology.organism_classification Pollution Spatial heterogeneity Fishery Italy Spain Environmental science France Bioindicator Plastics Water Pollutants Chemical Boops Environmental Monitoring |
| Popis: | This study assesses microplastic ingestion in Boops boops at different geographical areas in the Mediterranean Sea. A total of 884 fish were caught at 20 coastal sites in Spain, France, Italy and Greece and analyzed using a common methodological protocol. Microplastics were found in 46.8% of the sampled fish, with an average number of items per individual of 1.17 ± 0.07. Filaments were the predominant shape type, while polyethylene and polypropylene were indicated by FTIR as the most common polymer types of ingested microplastics. The frequency of occurrence, as well as the abundance and proportion of types (size, shape, color and polymer) of ingested microplastics, varied among geographical areas. The spatial heterogeneity of the abundance of ingested microplastics was mainly related to the degree of coastal anthropogenic pressure at the sampling sites. Our findings further support the suitability of B. boops as bioindicator of microplastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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