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Are microplastics destabilizing the global network of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services?
Environmental Research2021
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Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar
Sunil Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Srinidhi Sridharan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Sunil Kumar,
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar
Manish Kumar
Nanthi Bolan,
Lal Singh,
Lal Singh,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Sunil Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Lal Singh,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Sunil Kumar,
Lal Singh,
Siming You,
Sunil Kumar,
Manish Kumar
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Sunil Kumar,
Lal Singh,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Sunil Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Siming You,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Sunil Kumar,
Siming You,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Lal Singh,
Siming You,
Siming You,
Sunil Kumar,
Sunil Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Lal Singh,
Sunil Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Lal Singh,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar
Summary
This review assessed how microplastics and nanoplastics disrupt terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services — including soil fertility, water filtration, and food production — arguing that the cumulative impacts across global ecosystems may destabilize the network of services on which human society depends.
Plastic has created a new man-made ecosystem called plastisphere. The plastic pieces including microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have emerged as a global concern due to their omnipresence in ecosystems and their ability to interact with the biological systems. Nevertheless, the long-term impacts of MPs on biotic and abiotic resources are not completely understood, and existing evidence suggests that MPs are hazardous to various keystones species of the global biomes. MP-contaminated ecosystems show reduced floral and faunal biomass, productivity, nitrogen cycling, oxygen-generation and carbon sequestration, suggesting that MPs have already started affecting ecological biomes. However, not much is known about the influence of MPs towards the ecosystem services (ESs) cascade and its correlation with the biodiversity loss. MPs are perceived as a menace to the global ecosystems, but their possible impacts on the provisional, regulatory, and socio-economic ESs have not been extensively studied. This review investigates not only the potentiality of MPs to perturb the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic biomes, but also the associated social, ecological and economic repercussions. The possible long-term fluxes in the ES network of terrestrial and aquatic niches are also discussed.