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How climate change and eutrophication interact with microplastic pollution and sediment resuspension in shallow lakes: A review
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This review examines how climate change and eutrophication interact with and potentially amplify microplastic pollution and sediment resuspension in shallow lake ecosystems. The authors identify compounding threats to lake health and call for integrated research that considers these stressors together rather than in isolation.
Climate change and eutrophication are both critical environmental issues currently. Climate change induces more critical microplastic pollution and sediment resuspension in eutrophic lakes, and conversely the presence of microplastics and resuspension events would intensify these two environmental effects. Via evaluating the impacts of microplastics and sediment resuspension on climate change and eutrophication, it is favorable to provide recommendations for ecological protection and policy formulation in regard to the nutrient input as well as the production and utilization of plastic. In this review, we explore how climate change and eutrophication interact with microplastic pollution and sediment resuspension in shallow lakes, highlighting that both of the latter two play a significant role in the former two. Furthermore, future prospects are put forward on the further and deeper research on the global warming and eutrophication in shallow lakes with microplastic pollution.
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