Pesticides and microplastics are common pollutants in soil environments, adversely
affecting soil organisms. However, the combined toxicological effects of aged microplastics …

Heavy metals such as lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and arsenic (As) are of great concern in
aquatic ecosystems because of their global distribution, persistence, and biomagnification …

Ingestion of microplastics can lead to deleterious consequences for organisms, as
documented by numerous laboratory studies. The current knowledge is based on a …

Ingestion of microplastics can impair nutrition of marine invertebrates. In a laboratory study,
we tested whether microplastics affect ingestion rates and gastrointestinal enzyme activities …

Food quality is an important factor influencing organisms' well-being. In freshwater
ecosystems, food quality has been studied extensively for the keystone herbivore genus …

Abstract The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) is the most cultivated
bivalve in the world. Nonetheless, the massive production of microalgae as feed represents …

Among the highly diverse range of biobased polymers, polylactic acid (PLA) received vast
attention in recent years due to its versatility for different applications and being the first …

The analysis of lipid disruption in invertebrates is limited by our poor knowledge of their
lipidomes and of the associated metabolic pathways. For example, the mechanism by which …

Abstract Theory predicts that resource variability hinders consumer performance. How this
effect depends on the temporal structure of resource fluctuations encountered by individuals …

Background Several genetic lineages of obligate parthenogenetic Daphnia pulex, a
common zooplankton species, have invaded Japan from North America. Among these, a …