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ClearMicroplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Fates, Impacts and Microbial Degradation
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering their sources, distribution, and impacts on ocean life. Researchers found that microplastics are ingested by marine organisms at all levels of the food chain, potentially affecting both wildlife health and human food safety. The study also explores the promising role of marine bacteria that can break down certain plastics as a potential solution to this pollution crisis.
Micro Plastics in The Marine Environment: A Review of Their Effects on Marine Organisms and Ecosystems
This review examines the effects of microplastics on marine organisms and ecosystems, summarizing evidence for MP ingestion across trophic levels, physical and chemical harm to marine life, and the pathways through which marine MP pollution threatens biodiversity and fisheries.
Marine Microplastic Pollution
This review examines microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, summarizing the sources, distribution, and ecological effects of plastic particles in ocean environments and reviewing evidence for harm to marine organisms from physical ingestion and chemical exposure.
Microplastics contamination in marine system
This review examines the sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastic pollution in marine environments, from coastal waters to the deep ocean. Researchers found that microplastics are frequently mistaken for food by marine organisms, leading to ingestion that can cause physical harm and facilitate the transfer of toxic chemicals. The study underscores the need for better waste management and policy interventions to protect marine ecosystems.
Hazardous Effects of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Marine Environment
This review examines the hazardous effects of microplastics and nanoplastics in marine environments, discussing the sources, persistence, and biological impacts of plastic particles, and evaluating remediation strategies including bioremediation alongside conventional approaches such as incineration, recycling, and landfilling.
The detrimental impact of microplastics on the Marine Environment and potential remediation strategies.
This review analyzes the detrimental impacts of microplastics on marine environments, summarizing documented hazards to marine life and ecosystems from historical and recent research, and evaluates several representative remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination. The authors found that microplastics interfere broadly with marine organism physiology and food web dynamics, and that current treatment approaches — including filtration, photocatalysis, and biological degradation — each carry limitations requiring further development for large-scale application.
Microplastics in marine ecosystems: Sources, effects, and mitigation strategies
This review examines the sources, environmental pathways, ecological impacts across trophic levels, and mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, synthesizing current evidence on biological harm and evaluating policy frameworks, technological solutions, and individual behavioral changes aimed at reducing marine microplastic loads.
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of Their Sources, Formation, Fate, and Ecotoxicological Impact
This review collates evidence on microplastics in the marine environment, covering primary and secondary sources, degradation pathways into particles under 5 mm, ecotoxicological effects on marine biota that ingest smaller particles, and the transport and deposition mechanisms governing microplastic fate in sediments, shorelines, and the deep sea.
Microplastic pollution in the marine environment: Sources, impacts, and degradation.
This review summarizes existing research on microplastic pollution in the ocean, covering sources, effects on marine life, and degradation. Microplastics harm marine organisms across the food chain, from plankton to fish, affecting their growth, reproduction, immune systems, and behavior. Since humans consume many of these marine species, the widespread contamination raises concerns about microplastic exposure through seafood.
Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review
This review synthesized the state of knowledge on microplastics as marine contaminants, covering their sources, pathways, distribution, biological uptake, and potential ecological and toxicological effects.
Microplastics and its Impact on Oceanic Environment
This review examines the impact of microplastics on oceanic ecosystems, covering the mechanisms by which they harm aquatic life through ingestion and entanglement, and discusses potential strategies for reducing contamination. It emphasizes that continuous plastic production combined with poor waste management is driving an escalating ocean pollution crisis.
Marine microplastics
This review discusses the devastating effects of marine microplastics on ocean ecosystems, covering physical harm to organisms, chemical contamination, and ecological disruption across trophic levels. It serves as an accessible summary for communicating the scale and severity of the marine microplastic pollution problem.
Environmental toxicology of marine microplastic pollution
This review summarized a decade of research on the environmental toxicology of marine microplastic pollution across different ocean organisms and trophic levels. Researchers found that microplastics can accumulate in marine life from phytoplankton to fish, causing molecular, metabolic, and physiological harm. The study emphasizes that understanding these toxic effects is essential for assessing the broader ecological risks of plastic pollution in ocean environments.
Microplastics in the marine environment - A threat to marine biota?
This review examines the sources, quantities, and effects of microplastics in marine environments to assess whether they pose a genuine threat to marine life. Microplastics are found everywhere from Arctic to Antarctic waters, with the smallest fragments being the most concerning because they are available to a wider range of organisms and have more surface area to carry toxic chemicals.
The threat of microplastics and microbial degradation potential; a current perspective
This review covers the growing threat of microplastics in marine environments, where they enter the food chain and can transfer to humans along with pathogenic organisms, causing various toxic effects. The paper also explores how bacteria and fungi found in ocean environments could be harnessed to biodegrade different types of plastics as a future strategy for reducing microplastic pollution.
Understanding microplastic pollution of marine ecosystem: a review
This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastic pollution in oceans, covering where they come from, how they spread, and their harmful effects on marine life and potentially human health. Microplastics are found throughout the ocean -- from surface waters to deep sediments -- and can transfer toxic chemicals to organisms that consume them. The authors highlight that significant gaps remain in detection methods and understanding the full scope of how marine microplastics affect the food chain that leads to our plates.
Microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems: sources, impacts, andstakeholder-based solutions
This review covers the sources, pathways, and biological impacts of microplastics in marine ecosystems — including physical injury, chemical toxicity, and food web disruption — and proposes stakeholder-based solutions combining regulation, monitoring, and public engagement.
Occurrence, effects and risks of marine microplastics
This review summarizes the state of knowledge on the occurrence, biological effects, and ecological risks of microplastics in the marine environment. It covers plastic sources, distribution patterns, ingestion by marine organisms, and the transfer of chemical pollutants through marine food webs, concluding that microplastic pollution poses serious and growing risks to ocean ecosystems.
The Hidden Microplastic A New Insight into Degradation of Plastic in Marine Environment
This review examines plastic degradation processes in the marine environment and the formation of hidden microplastics from larger plastic debris, surveying bio-based solutions and indigenous microbial approaches being developed to mitigate microplastic pollution in oceans. The authors discuss the biological mechanisms by which marine microbes degrade plastic materials and the potential for harnessing these processes at environmental scale.
Toxicity of microplastics in the marine environment.
This review chapter provides a broad and updated overview of microplastic ecotoxicology in marine environments, covering effects from the biochemical level through population and ecosystem scales. Evidence reviewed demonstrates that microplastics can act as physical hazards and chemical vectors affecting marine biodiversity across multiple trophic levels.