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Marine & Wildlife
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Fate and effects of microplastics in the shrimp Palaemon varians
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
2018
Sarah Riesbeck,
Lars Gutow,
Reinhard Saborowski
Summary
This research characterized microplastic pollution across multiple environmental compartments — water, sediment, and biota — in a coastal lagoon system in southern Europe. The study found that sediments acted as sinks for microplastics, with concentrations orders of magnitude higher than overlying water, and that benthic invertebrates showed higher ingestion rates than pelagic species.