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ClearEcotoxicological perspectives of microplastics
This review summarized the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics across aquatic and terrestrial organisms, covering the global scale of plastic production and the chronic harm MPs cause to ecosystems. The paper called for greater research standardization and policy intervention to address the escalating contamination.
Promising indicators for monitoring microplastic pollution
This review evaluated promising biological and ecological indicators for monitoring microplastic pollution, arguing that standardized indicator species and metrics are needed to better track microplastic abundance, distribution, and accumulation in ecosystems.
Pollution Biomarkers in the Framework of Marine Biodiversity Conservation: State of Art and Perspectives
This review examines how molecular and cellular biomarkers can be used to detect the effects of chemical pollution, including from microplastics, on marine organisms and biodiversity. The study highlights the importance of integrating biomarker data into environmental monitoring frameworks to better assess pollution impacts on marine ecosystems.
Microplastics in Global Marine Waters and Biota: Effectiveness of Potential Bioindicators in Mirroring Local Pollution Levels
This review assessed the global occurrence of microplastics in marine waters and biota and evaluated the effectiveness of potential bioindicator species for monitoring plastic pollution. The authors find that standardizing bioindicator protocols is essential for tracking the effectiveness of microplastic mitigation efforts.
Toxicity and biomarkers of micro-plastic in aquatic environment: a review
This review synthesizes literature on the toxicity and biomarker responses of aquatic organisms to microplastics, covering uptake routes, bioavailability factors, and both lethal and sub-lethal effects. It highlights oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, and genotoxicity as consistent toxic mechanisms across diverse aquatic species.
Microplastic toxicity: mechanisms, assessment methods, and future research directions
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic toxicity mechanisms, integrating physical, chemical, and biological pathways into a unified framework. Researchers examined assessment methods across aquatic organisms, terrestrial species, and human cell models, identifying critical knowledge gaps and recommending standardized approaches for future microplastic toxicity research.
Multi-Omics Approach on the Ecotoxicological Assessment of Microplastics
This review examines the application of multi-omics approaches — including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics — to the ecotoxicological assessment of microplastics in living organisms. The authors synthesize how these integrated molecular tools are advancing understanding of the mechanistic pathways by which microplastics disrupt biological systems, offering a more comprehensive picture than single-endpoint toxicity studies.
Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics in the marine environment
This review synthesizes ecotoxicological evidence on the impacts of microplastics in the marine environment, drawing on over 50 scientific articles to assess effects at molecular, cellular, organ, individual, and population levels. The authors identify critical methodological limitations including non-standardized particle characteristics, limited species diversity in testing, and scarce community-level studies, concluding that current risk assessment frameworks are insufficient for the more than 5,300 grades of plastics entering marine ecosystems.
A critical viewpoint on current issues, limitations, and future research needs on micro- and nanoplastic studies: From the detection to the toxicological assessment.
This critical review examines the current methods for detecting and characterizing micro- and nanoplastics in various environmental samples, as well as reported toxic effects from in vivo and in vitro studies. The authors found that while substantial effort has been made to understand microplastic behavior, the scientific community is still far from a complete understanding of how these particles behave in biological systems. The review calls for improved standardized protocols and more studies focused on uptake kinetics, accumulation, and biodistribution.
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.
The scientific basis for addressing marine micro- and nanoplastic pollution: Informing effective monitoring and remediation frameworks
This review synthesizes the scientific basis for monitoring and remediating marine micro- and nanoplastic pollution, covering detection technologies, ecotoxicological effects across the food web, and the specific challenges nanoplastics pose due to their nanoscale properties.
Index models for ecological and health risks assessment of environmental micro-and nano-sized plastics
This review presented and evaluated index models used to assess ecological and health risks from environmental micro- and nanoplastics, providing standardized methods for describing contamination levels and potential impacts on ecosystems and human health.
Ecological and toxicological manifestations of microplastics: current scenario, research gaps, and possible alleviation measures
This review examines the ecological and toxicological effects of microplastics and their associated contaminants across aquatic and terrestrial environments, identifying key knowledge gaps and potential mitigation strategies. The authors emphasize that both physical particle effects and co-transported chemical pollutants pose compounding risks to wildlife and ecosystems.
Microplastics in ecosystems: ecotoxicological threats and strategies for mitigation and governance
This review provides a broad assessment of microplastic pollution across ecosystems, covering sources, detection methods, ecological impacts, and cleanup strategies. The study highlights recent advances including AI-enhanced detection tools and microbe-based degradation approaches, and proposes a roadmap for working toward microplastic-free environments through coordinated scientific and policy action.
Toxicological review of micro- and nano-plastics in aquatic environments: Risks to ecosystems, food web dynamics and human health.
This review synthesized evidence on the toxicological effects of micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic ecosystems, covering risks to individual organisms, disruptions to food web dynamics, and pathways through which plastic exposure poses risks to human health via seafood consumption.
Towards harmonized ecotoxicological effect assessment of micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic systems
This review highlights the methodological problems in current microplastic and nanoplastic toxicity research on freshwater organisms, including the use of unrealistic plastic types, poor test designs, and environmentally irrelevant doses. The authors propose a harmonized framework for testing that better reflects real-world conditions, including more realistic particle types and exposure levels. Better standardized research is essential for accurately assessing the true environmental and health risks of micro and nanoplastic pollution.
Microplastics in ecological system: Their prevalence, health effects, and remediation
This review provides an overview of microplastic prevalence across different ecosystems and their potential effects on environmental and human health. The researchers discuss how microplastics enter water, soil, and food chains, and examine the various biological effects documented in organisms. They also review current remediation strategies being developed to address microplastic contamination.
Recent Trends on Microplastics Pollution and Its Remediation:A Review
This review summarized current knowledge on the ubiquitous presence of microplastics in ecosystems, examining their toxic effects on marine organisms, limitations of existing detection methods, and available remediation strategies, while identifying key research gaps that must be addressed to manage this global pollution challenge.
Toxicity Assessment of Microconstituents in the Environment
This review describes the fate, behavior, transport, and toxicity assessment of microplastics in aquatic environments, covering ecotoxicological test methods and their limitations, and calls for reduced plastic use and promotion of eco-friendly alternatives that degrade safely.
Environmental distribution, transport and ecotoxicity of microplastics: A review
This review covers the environmental distribution and transport of microplastics across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric compartments, and analyzes their toxicity to organisms at different trophic levels including potential effects on human health.
Microplastics and biodiversity: A comprehensive analysis of their ecological impact
This comprehensive analysis examined the ecological impacts of microplastics on biodiversity, reviewing evidence of harm to species across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. The review found widespread negative effects on reproduction, behavior, and survival that threaten biodiversity at multiple levels.
Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Ecotoxicological Effects, Exposure Pathways and Trophic Transfer Risks
This review synthesises evidence on the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics in marine, freshwater, and estuarine environments, covering ingestion, bioaccumulation, trophic transfer, and physiological harms across aquatic fauna. It identifies chemical co-contamination and particle size as key modulators of toxicity.
Micro/nanoplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Analytical challenges, ecological impacts, and mitigation strategies
This review provides a comprehensive assessment of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering detection methods, toxic effects across the food chain, and emerging cleanup strategies. Researchers highlight the limitations of current analytical techniques and the challenges of accurately measuring these tiny particles in water and living organisms. The study identifies key research priorities needed to better understand and mitigate the growing threat of plastic particle pollution in waterways.
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.