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Effect of emerging contaminants on soil microbial community composition, soil enzyme activity, and strawberry plant growth in polyethylene microplastic-containing soils
Environmental Science Advances
2023
11 citations
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Shawninder Chahal,
Peiying Wang,
Vinicius Bueno,
Hemanshu Anand,
Stéphane Bayen,
Subhasis Ghoshal,
Valérie Gravel,
Nathalie Tufenkji
Summary
Researchers found that emerging contaminants altered soil microbial community composition and enzyme activity, but these effects were suppressed when HDPE microplastics were also present in the soil, suggesting microplastics may modulate how soils respond to chemical contaminants.
Emerging contaminants were found to alter the soil microbial community composition. However, no changes were observed when these compounds were added to soil containing 100 mg kg −1 HDPE microplastics.