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Seasonal and spatial distribution of microplastics in sediments by FTIR imaging throughout a continuum lake - lagoon- beach from the Tunisian coast

The Science of The Total Environment 2022 29 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 40 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Rihab Jaouani, Rihab Jaouani, Catherine Mouneyrac, Rihab Jaouani, Fabienne Lagarde, Rihab Jaouani, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Hamouda Beyrem Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Hamouda Beyrem Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Frédéric Amiard, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Amélie Châtel, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Frédéric Amiard, Frédéric Amiard, Frédéric Amiard, Frédéric Amiard, Mohamed Dellali, Hamouda Beyrem Fabienne Lagarde, Hamouda Beyrem Catherine Mouneyrac, Hamouda Beyrem Catherine Mouneyrac, Hamouda Beyrem Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Catherine Mouneyrac, Frédéric Amiard, Frédéric Amiard, Alexandre Michelet, Frédéric Amiard, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Hamouda Beyrem Alexandre Michelet, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Catherine Mouneyrac, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Catherine Mouneyrac, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Amélie Châtel, Fabienne Lagarde, Fabienne Lagarde, Amélie Châtel, Hamouda Beyrem

Summary

Researchers investigated seasonal and spatial distribution of microplastics in sediments across a lake-lagoon-beach continuum on the Tunisian coast, using FTIR imaging to characterize plastic types, finding microplastics throughout all ecosystems with variations by season, depth, and proximity to pollution sources.

Polymers
PA PE PET PMMA PP PS PVC
Study Type Environmental

Plastics pollution in marine environment has become an issue of increasing scientific concern. This work aims to study the temporal and spatial distribution of plastics in sediments from three different Tunisian ecosystems; Rimel Beach, Bizerta lagoon and Ichkeul lake. Sediment sampling was conducted in surface (2 cm) and depth (15 cm) during spring, summer and winter. Plastics debris were separated by size fractions: macro (>5 mm), meso (1-5 mm) and microplastics (<1 mm) to optimize the time necessary for their characterisation. Macroplastics and mesoplastics were identified using an IR Attenuated total reflectance (ATR) and microplastics with Imaging Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectroscopy after an optimized extraction protocol. Results indicate that, the lowest contamination degree with macroplastics was recorded in Ichkeul lake, 2 macro debris/m (marine protected area, national parc of Ichkeul). Mesoparticles were only detected in lagoon of Bizerte in large quantities (4900 item/kg of sediment in surface and 680 item/kg of sediment in depth) and were identified principally as paint products. For microplastics, the repartition was quite homogeneous between the three sites with an average abundance was 130.55 ± 65.61 items/kg for all seasons. The variations of microplastics abundances on the three sites could not be clearly related to the seasons. Whereas the polymer characterisation in the surface and depth sediments of the three studied areas were principally due to eight types of polymers (PVC, PET, PP, PE PS, Polyamide (PA) and polymeric methyl methacrylate (PMMA)) as reported in many other studies, surprisingly all MPs recovered in the study were smaller than 300 μm, >70 % being fragments. This study brings new results as regards to the state of plastic contamination in Tunisian coast and shows the importance of investigating different ecosystems in such studies.

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