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ClearAssessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach
This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, examining how microplastics alter sediment dynamics, disrupt marine food webs, and interact synergistically with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants to create a complex environmental crisis requiring integrative management solutions.
Economic and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Fisheries: A Global Analysis of Vulnerability and Adaptive Management Strategies
Researchers conducted a global analysis of how climate change compounds existing threats to coastal fisheries, including pollution from microplastics and other anthropogenic stressors. The study evaluated vulnerability across regions and assessed adaptive management strategies. The findings suggest that integrated approaches addressing both climate and pollution pressures are needed to sustain coastal fisheries.
Assessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach
This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, covering sources, distribution pathways, ecological effects on marine organisms, and implications for environmental management. The authors draw on recent interdisciplinary research to assess how microplastics infiltrate nearly every ecological compartment from coastal waters to ocean sediments and interact with biological and chemical systems.
Future coastal water pollution under global change: multi-pollutant modeling
Researchers describe a global multi-pollutant modeling framework for assessing future coastal water pollution from nutrients, plastics, and chemicals under climate change and urbanization scenarios, arguing that managing multiple pollutants together is essential for achieving clean coastal water goals.
Knowledge gaps and opportunities in water-quality drivers of aquatic ecosystem health
This report identifies major gaps in scientific understanding of how water quality factors affect the health of aquatic ecosystems. Researchers highlight challenges including nutrient cycling, emerging contaminants like microplastics and pharmaceuticals, and the need for better monitoring tools. The study proposes new research approaches to improve predictions about how water quality changes impact freshwater and coastal environments.
Coastal pollution of aquatic systems
This review examined pollution in coastal aquatic systems during the Anthropocene, covering the types of stressors — including plastics, nutrients, and chemicals — and the challenges of monitoring dynamic coastal environments. It emphasizes that coastal systems integrate land-based human impacts and are among the most heavily affected by plastic contamination.
Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century
This review examines how multiple environmental stressors including pollution, climate change, invasive species, and nanoparticles are simultaneously degrading freshwater ecosystems worldwide. The combined effects of these stressors, including microplastic contamination, threaten both the ecological health of freshwater systems and the clean water supplies that human civilization depends on.
Climate change and microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: ecological and societal consequences
This review examines how climate change amplifies the ecological and societal impacts of microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. The study suggests that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and altered precipitation patterns accelerate plastic fragmentation and dispersal, creating compounding effects on water quality, biodiversity, and coastal communities.
Plastics and microplastics, effects on marine coastal areas: a review
This review examines how plastics and microplastics impact coastal marine ecosystems, covering their entry pathways, degradation under environmental conditions, and ecological effects on marine organisms.
Coastal Pollution, Cross-Sector Collaboration and a New Way Forward for Coral Reef Conservation
This commentary discusses how coral reef degradation is being driven by multiple stressors including plastic pollution, climate change, and poor coastal management. It calls for cross-sector collaboration among scientists, governments, and local communities to better protect these critical marine ecosystems.
Dampak Mikroplastik terhadap Ekosistem Pesisir: Sebuah Telaah Pustaka
This Indonesian-language review examines the impacts of microplastics on coastal ecosystems, covering effects on marine organisms, sediment quality, and food web dynamics. The paper highlights the vulnerability of tropical coastal environments to plastic pollution from both land-based and marine sources.
A review on microplastic pollution in the mangrove wetlands and microbial strategies for its remediation
Researchers reviewed the growing problem of microplastic pollution in mangrove wetland ecosystems and its effects on the biological communities that depend on these habitats. They found that microplastic exposure can substantially alter the microbial communities critical to nutrient cycling in mangrove environments. The review also explores microbial bioremediation strategies as a sustainable approach to addressing plastic pollution in these threatened coastal ecosystems.
Progress on microplastics pollution and its ecological effects in the coastal environment
This review systematically summarizes a decade of research on microplastic pollution and its ecological effects in coastal environments worldwide, identifying persistent technical challenges in sampling standardization, particle identification, and ecological impact assessment. Researchers highlight the need for unified methodologies to better understand the sources, fate, and biological consequences of coastal microplastic contamination.
Environmental Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions
This review examines microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering chemical, biological, and ecological processes beyond simple physical contamination and identifying priority areas for future research directions.
Addressing the global challenge of coastal sewage pollution
This review examines how untreated sewage -- which carries microplastics along with nutrients, pathogens, and heavy metals -- pollutes coastal environments where nearly half the world's population lives. Over 80% of sewage enters the environment without treatment, threatening marine ecosystems and human health through contaminated seafood and waterborne diseases.
Good eutrophication status is a challenging goal for coastal waters
Not relevant to microplastics — this study models nutrient pollution and eutrophication in the Baltic Sea's Archipelago Sea, finding that meeting current international nutrient reduction targets can improve outer coastal water quality but is insufficient for inner coastal zones, without addressing microplastic pollution.
Is soft-sediments ecosystem service delivery compromised due to microplastic pollution?
This review examines how microplastic pollution may compromise ecosystem service delivery in soft-sediment habitats, focusing on potential impacts on microphytobenthic microbial communities that underpin nutrient cycling, sediment stabilization, and food web productivity. The authors argue that because soft sediments act as microplastic sinks, their resident microbial communities face disproportionate exposure, and call for holistic research linking microplastic effects on microbial diversity and biogeochemical function to broader ecosystem service outcomes.
Navigating the nexus: climate dynamics and microplastics pollution in coastal ecosystems
This review examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact in coastal ecosystems, finding that rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and stronger storms are spreading microplastics further and faster into marine environments. These climate-driven changes also accelerate plastic breakdown into smaller, more dangerous particles that are more easily absorbed by marine life. The combination of worsening climate conditions and increasing plastic pollution poses a growing threat to both coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them for food.
Insightful analytical review of potential impacts of microplastic pollution on coastal and marine ecosystem services
This analytical review assessed how microplastic debris disrupts ecological functions of marine and coastal habitats, including mangroves and seagrass ecosystems, identifying critical knowledge gaps around microbial impacts and calling for coordinated global research on supporting ecosystem services most vulnerable to microplastic interference.
A review on microplastics pollution in coastal wetlands
Researchers reviewed existing studies on microplastic pollution in coastal wetlands — ecosystems like mangroves, salt marshes, and tidal flats — summarizing where microplastics accumulate, how they get there, and how they affect wildlife and ecosystem function. These habitats are especially vulnerable because they sit at the boundary between land and sea, trapping plastics carried by both rivers and ocean tides.
Distribution, sources and consequences of nutrients, persistent organic pollutants, metals and microplastics in South American estuaries
Researchers reviewed the distribution, sources, and environmental consequences of nutrients, persistent organic pollutants, metals, and microplastics in South American estuaries. The study found that inadequate sanitation infrastructure and uncontrolled coastal development are major pollution drivers across the continent, and that microplastics add a relatively understudied dimension to the cumulative contamination burden in these ecosystems.
Water Quality Challenges and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Management
This review examines technological innovations for sustainable water quality management in the context of increasing contamination from chemical pollutants, pathogens, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. Researchers summarized advances in water quality assessment methods and treatment technologies that address these modern challenges. The study highlights how rapid urbanization and climate change are intensifying the need for more sophisticated water management approaches.
A systematic review and scientometrics analysis on microplastic pollution on coastal beaches around the globe
This systematic review analyzes microplastic pollution on coastal beaches worldwide. The research found that beach contamination varies widely by region but is present on virtually every coastline studied. This matters because beaches are not just recreational areas but also habitats where microplastics can enter marine food webs and eventually reach people through seafood consumption.
Microplásticos en ecosistemas acuáticos: una revisión sobre su impacto y gestión
This literature review analyzes the ecological impact of microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems and available management strategies. Researchers found that microplastics affect aquatic organisms through ingestion and bioaccumulation, altering physiological functions and acting as vectors for toxic pollutants and pathogens. While filtration technologies, bioremediation, and regulatory measures have been developed, their effectiveness remains limited and a comprehensive approach combining prevention, mitigation, and stricter policies is needed.