Although plastics are widely used polymers in our daily life as a blessing, however due to the lack of proper waste management system, every year million tons of plastic wastes get generated in the environment. Besides posing serious threats to the terrestrial life, most of the plastic waste ...
Accumulation of these contaminants with microplastics in marine food webs may cause toxicity, and once in the food chain, they may also impact human health (Andrady, 2011). However, the adverse effects of plastics on human health are not completely known and further research efforts must be ...
Major reviews of the impacts of litter, in particular plastics, on marine life have been undertaken by Shomura and Yoshida (1985), Laist (1997), Derraik (2002) and Katsanevakis (2008). We used the species list of Laist (1997) as a basis for our work and conducted an extensive liter...
The impact of debris on marine life Marine debris is listed among the major perceived threats to biodiversity, and is cause for particular concern due to its abundance, durability and persist... SC Gall,RC Thompson - 《Marine Pollution Bulletin》 被引量: 345发表: 2015年 Deleterious effects of...
Effects of Pollution on Marine Life Pollution has a myriad effects on marine life. Some of the most common ones include: 1. Plastic Waste Kills Animals When seabirds, sea turtles and other animals ingest plastic, the waste clogs their stomach, causing them to starve to death.About60%of all...
Plastic wastes have been mistaken for food by numerous animals, mainly marine wildlife. Large quantities of plastics have been found in the stomachs of many dead animals. When the plastics are ingested, they upset or fill up the digestive systems of the animals thus contributing to their death ...
The littering and loss of plastic waste is nowadays becoming a threat to wildlife sinc... C Rummel 被引量: 7发表: 2014年 Microplastics Extraction Methods for Small Fishes, on the Road to a Standard Monitoring Approach Over the last decades synthetic polymers, so called plastics, became one ...
The smaller the particle, the higher the availability to ani- mals at the base of the food chain. The potential deleterious effects from inges- tion, have heightened the urgency to evaluate the impact of plastics on the whole marine food chain and, ultimately, the consequences for humans as ...
Microplastics ( <5 mm), which are classified based on primary or secondary sources, are widely distributed in the environment and exert significant effects on aquatic life forms; however, evidence regarding the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms is still limited. This researc...
are Accepted 13 May 2016 the major sources of plastic entering the environment, with domestic, industrial and fishing activities being Available online xxxx the most important contributors. Ocean gyres are particular hotspots of plastic waste accumulation. Both Editor: D. Barcelo macroplastics and ...