Sedimentary microplastic concentrations from the Romanian Danube River to the Black Sea
| Autor: | Adrian Stanica, Iulian Pojar, Michael Schultz, Christian Kochleus, Friederike Stock, Chris Bradley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Multidisciplinary
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Science 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Article Environmental sciences Ocean sciences Oceanography Abundance (ecology) Danube delta Environmental science Medicine Black sea Sedimentary rock Transect River danube 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | A multitude of recent studies have detailed microplastic concentrations in aquatic and terrestrial environments, although questions remain over their ultimate fate. At present, few studies have detailed microplastic characteristics and abundance along a freshwater–marine interface, and considerable uncertainties remain over the modelled contribution of terrestrial and riverine microplastic to the world’s oceans. In this article, for the first time, we detail sedimentary microplastic concentrations along a River–Sea transect from the lower reaches of a major continental river, the River Danube, through the Danube Delta, the Black Sea coast to the Romanian and Bulgarian inner shelf of the Black Sea. Our results indicate that isolated areas of the Danube Delta are still relatively pristine, with few microplastic particles in some of the sediments sampled. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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