Zooplankton and Plastic Additives—Insights into the Chemical Pollution of the Low-Trophic Level of the Mediterranean Marine Food Web

Natascha Schmidt; Javier Castro-Jiménez; Vincent Fauvelle; Richard Sempéré

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71279-6_17

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Zooplankton and Plastic Additives—Insights into the Chemical Pollution of the Low-Trophic Level of the Mediterranean Marine Food Web

Springer water 2017 6 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.

Natascha Schmidt, Javier Castro-Jiménez, Vincent Fauvelle, Richard Sempéré

Summary

Researchers analyzed Mediterranean zooplankton for plastic additive chemicals — compounds used in manufacturing that can leach from microplastics into surrounding water — finding that even low-trophic marine organisms are exposed to these substances. This suggests that chemical contamination from plastics may be traveling up the marine food web from the very bottom.

Marine litter such as microplastics pose a variety of problems once they reach the environment via improper waste disposal or spills, among others. While microplastics are often ingested by marine organisms, marine life is not only threatened by the physical damage...

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