No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades – A case study from the Baltic Sea
| Autor: | Anders Garm, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Sabrina Beer, Bastian Huwer, Jan Dierking |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Environmental Engineering Sprattus sprattus Forage fish 010501 environmental sciences Marine pollution Plastic 01 natural sciences Environmental Chemistry Marine ecosystem 14. Life underwater SDG 14 - Life Below Water Waste Management and Disposal Long-term changes 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Atlantic herring biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Ingestion Sprat Clupea Plankton biology.organism_classification Pollution Fishery 13. Climate action |
| Zdroj: | Beer, S, Garm, A, Huwer, B, Dierking, J & Nielsen, T G 2017, No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades – A case study from the Baltic Sea . in Book of Abstracts Sustain 2017 ., A-8, Sustain 2017, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, 06/12/2017 . Beer, S, Garm, A, Huwer, B, Dierking, J & Nielsen, T G 2018, ' No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades-A case study from the Baltic Sea ', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 621, pp. 1272-1279 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.101 Technical University of Denmark Orbit Science of the Total Environment, 621 . pp. 1272-1279. Beer, S, Garm, A L, Huwer, B, Dierking, J & Nielsen, T G 2018, ' No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades : a case study from the Baltic Sea ', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 621, pp. 1272-1279 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.101 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.101 |
| Popis: | Highlights: • First long-term study on microplastic in the marine environment • Case study based on a unique sample set from the highly human impacted Baltic Sea • Water column microplastic concentration constant over past three decades • Microplastic concentration in forage fish constant over past three decades • We hypothesise that household waste is the dominant source of Baltic marine plastics. Abstract Microplastic is considered a potential threat to marine life as it is ingested by a wide variety of species. Most studies on microplastic ingestion are short-term investigations and little is currently known about how this potential threat has developed over the last decades where global plastic production has increased exponentially. Here we present the first long-term study on microplastic in the marine environment, covering three decades from 1987 to 2015, based on a unique sample set originally collected and conserved for food web studies. We investigated the microplastic concentration in plankton samples and in digestive tracts of two economically and ecologically important planktivorous forage fish species, Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and European sprat (Sprattus sprattus), in the Baltic Sea, an ecosystem which is under high anthropogenic pressure and has undergone considerable changes over the past decades. Surprisingly, neither the concentration of microplastic in the plankton samples nor in the digestive tracts changed significantly over the investigated time period. Average microplastic concentration in the plankton samples was 0.21±0.15particlesm-3. Of 814 fish examined, 20% contained plastic particles, of which 95% were characterized as microplastic ( |
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