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Seasonal biofilm formation on floating microplastics in coastal waters of intensified marinculture area
Marine Pollution Bulletin2021
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Changjun Li,
Xuri Dong,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Peilin Jiang,
Peilin Jiang,
Kai Liu,
Daoji Li
Changjun Li,
Daoji Li
Lixin Zhu,
Daoji Li
Changjun Li,
Xuri Dong,
Xuri Dong,
Xuri Dong,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xuri Dong,
Xuri Dong,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Lixin Zhu,
Xiaohui Wang,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Peilin Jiang,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Xuri Dong,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Peilin Jiang,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Lixin Zhu,
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Lixin Zhu,
Kai Liu,
Kai Liu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Xuri Dong,
Lixin Zhu,
Kai Liu,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Xiaohui Wang,
Kai Liu,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Lixin Zhu,
Xiaohui Wang,
Daoji Li
Xiaohui Wang,
Lixin Zhu,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Xiaohui Wang,
Xiaohui Wang,
Kai Liu,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Changjun Li,
Changjun Li,
Daoji Li
Daoji Li
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Changjun Li,
Lixin Zhu,
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Peilin Jiang,
Peilin Jiang,
Peilin Jiang,
Peilin Jiang,
Lixin Zhu,
Daoji Li
Peilin Jiang,
Daoji Li
Lixin Zhu,
Daoji Li
Xuri Dong,
Daoji Li
Summary
Researchers investigated seasonal biofilm formation on floating polyethylene and polypropylene microplastics in four coastal mariculture zones in southeast China, finding that biofilm bacterial community composition differed less between winter and summer than the surrounding planktonic bacteria. The results suggest biofilms on microplastics provide a buffering microenvironment that stabilizes bacterial communities across seasons.
The environmental pollution caused by microplastics has received increasing attention recently. In this paper, we present the results of research into the bacterium attached to microplastics in four coastal mariculture zones in southeast China during winter and summer. Polyethene and polypropylene are the main microplastics in the surface water of mariculture area. The differences between the bacteria species composition found on the surface of microplastics in winter and summer were less than that found in the planktonic bacteria, indicating that biofilms protect the bacterium that live inside. Potentially pathogenic Vibrio and Pseudomonas spp. were more abundant in samples from ShanTou and QuanZhou during the summer. Bacteria related to the degradation of microplastics were found extensively on the surface of microplastics at all of the sampling sites. More attention should be paid to the risks resulting from the accumulation of harmful bacteria on microplastic surfaces during the summer.