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ClearPlastic Pollution and Its Impact on Biodiversity
This review examines the relationship between plastic pollution and biodiversity loss, analyzing how microplastics degrade natural habitats, disrupt ecosystems, and threaten species survival, drawing on scientific literature to assess the sources, forms, and ecological impacts of plastic contamination across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Ecological risks in a ‘plastic’ world: A threat to biological diversity?
This review synthesized evidence on how microplastic pollution affects biological diversity and community structure across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, finding that most studies document effects at the individual level but that community- and ecosystem-level impacts remain poorly characterized.
The Impact of Pollution on Biodiversity Loss: A Review
This review synthesized global literature on how air, water, soil, and chemical pollutants — including microplastics — contribute to biodiversity loss. The authors conclude that pollution acts through multiple pathways to reduce species diversity and ecosystem health, often in combination with other stressors.
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.
Protecting and restoring habitats to benefit freshwater biodiversity
This paper reviews how protecting and restoring freshwater habitats can help reverse the steep decline in river, lake, and wetland biodiversity. Human activities like damming, agriculture, and urbanization have fragmented and degraded these ecosystems at alarming rates. While not focused on microplastics specifically, the review is relevant because reducing pollution, including plastic waste, is a key part of freshwater habitat restoration strategies.
Micro Plastic Contamination: A Comprehensive Review of Risks and Sustainable Solutions
This comprehensive review examines the sources, environmental fate, ecological impacts, and potential sustainable solutions for microplastic contamination, summarizing evidence for MP effects on aquatic organisms and discussing physical, chemical, and biological strategies to reduce pollution.
A Review on the Impact of Plastic Debris on Marine Environment
This review summarizes the types, sources, and impacts of plastic debris in marine environments, covering both macro- and microplastics and their effects on marine biodiversity. The paper also discusses global initiatives and policy frameworks aimed at reducing marine plastic pollution.
Microplastics in Ecosystems: From Current Trends to Bio-Based Removal Strategies
This review examines current trends in microplastic contamination across ecosystems and evaluates bio-based removal strategies as alternatives to conventional wastewater treatment, which fails to fully capture small microplastic particles. The authors assess the potential of biological approaches including biofilms, fungi, and microorganisms to degrade or capture microplastics as part of integrated pollution management.
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.
Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in freshwater environments, covering sources, distribution, and ecological impacts in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Researchers found that freshwater microplastic contamination is widespread globally but that standardized sampling and analysis methods are still lacking. The study calls for more consistent research approaches so that contamination levels across different water bodies can be meaningfully compared.
A Comprehensive Review of Climatic Threats and Adaptation of Marine Biodiversity
This comprehensive review examines how climate change threatens marine biodiversity through rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and habitat loss. Among the many environmental stressors discussed, microplastic pollution is highlighted as an additional threat that compounds the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. The paper evaluates adaptation strategies like marine protected areas and habitat restoration that could help protect the ocean ecosystems humans depend on for food.
Microplastics and nanoplastics: would they affect global biodiversity change?
This review examined how the ubiquitous distribution of micro- and nanoplastics and their demonstrated effects on individual organisms could translate to global biodiversity changes, identifying threats to ecosystems through direct toxicity, food web disruption, and habitat alteration. The authors call for new research approaches that link individual-level microplastic effects to population and ecosystem-level biodiversity impacts.
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.
Emerging environmental contaminants: Sources, effects on biodiversity and humans, remediation, and conservation implications
This review examines how emerging environmental contaminants, including microplastics, heavy metals, and industrial chemicals, are affecting both wildlife and people, especially in developing countries. Communities living near mines and factories face the highest exposure through contaminated soil, water, and food. The authors call for better environmental policies, public awareness, and cleanup technologies to protect biodiversity and human health.
Mikroplastiklerin Ekosistem Ve Biyoçeşitlilik Üzerine Etkileri
This Turkish-language review examines the effects of microplastics on ecosystem health and biodiversity, summarizing how plastic particles disrupt ecological relationships across soil, freshwater, and marine environments and affect species at multiple trophic levels.
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.
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.
Emerging microplastic contamination in ecosystem: An urge for environmental sustainability
This review summarized the sources, environmental distribution, and ecological effects of microplastics, emphasizing the exponential increase in plastic production and waste mismanagement driving MP accumulation across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The authors called for urgent policy measures to reduce single-use plastic production and improve waste infrastructure globally.
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.
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.
The Burden of Microplastics Pollution and Contending Policies and Regulations
This review examines the growing global burden of microplastic pollution and the policies being developed to address it. Researchers found that inadequate waste management systems allow massive amounts of plastic to contaminate terrestrial and aquatic environments, threatening ecosystems and the billions of people who depend on them. The study evaluates existing regulations and suggests that stronger, more coordinated policy frameworks are needed to curb microplastic pollution.
Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets
This review explores how environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis from water samples can help monitor aquatic biodiversity and track ecosystem health. While not directly about microplastics, eDNA technology is increasingly being adapted to study how plastic pollution affects aquatic ecosystems and species diversity. Better biodiversity monitoring tools help scientists understand the broader ecological impacts of microplastic contamination on the water systems that support human food and resources.
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research
This paper argues that chemical pollution, including microplastics, deserves far more attention in biodiversity research alongside climate change and habitat loss. Evidence shows that anthropogenic chemicals are a growing threat to ecosystems worldwide, yet pollution is often left out of biodiversity studies. The authors call for interdisciplinary collaboration between ecologists and environmental chemists to better understand and combat pollution-driven biodiversity decline.
Habitat recovery and restoration in aquatic ecosystems: current progress and future challenges
This review covers the current progress and future challenges in habitat recovery and restoration of aquatic ecosystems degraded by human pressures. The study highlights how contaminants including microplastics contribute to biodiversity decline and discusses strategies for reversing environmental degradation and restoring lost ecosystem functioning.