Micro and Nanoplastics: Effect on Lentic Ecosystem

Micro and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environment

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This book chapter reviews how advances in polymer science over the past century and a half have made plastics ubiquitous, and how that has led to escalating micro- and nanoplastic contamination of aquatic environments worldwide. Understanding the origins and environmental behavior of these particles is foundational to assessing the risks they pose to aquatic life and human health.

Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Challenges and Threats to Aquatic Organisms

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Micro- and nanoplastics have been detected across a wide range of aquatic organisms from microalgae to fish, disrupting metabolic, physiological, and behavioral processes at both cellular and ecosystem levels. Their persistence and increasing abundance in oceans make them a growing food safety threat as plastic contamination moves up the aquatic food chain toward human consumption.

Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Aquatic Environment

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Researchers reviewed the environmental impacts of microplastics and nanoplastics in aquatic ecosystems, documenting how their ubiquitous presence disrupts food webs, causes physical and chemical harm to aquatic organisms, and raises concerns about bioaccumulation up the food chain to humans.

Influence of microplastic on the aquatic ecosystem

Microplastics: An Emerging Threat to the Aquatic Ecosystem

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Researchers reviewed the accumulation of microplastics across aquatic ecosystems worldwide, finding that plastic particles have reached even remote water bodies and pose threats to aquatic organisms through ingestion, physical harm, and the transport of toxic chemical pollutants.