Chemical analysis of microplastics and nanoplastics: challenges, advanced methods, and perspectives

NP Ivleva - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity

VM Azevedo-Santos, MFG Brito, PS Manoel… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
Plastics are dominant pollutants in freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Scientific studies that
investigated the interaction between plastics and freshwater biodiversity are incipient …

Microplastics as emerging food contaminants: a challenge for food safety

C Rubio-Armendáriz, S Alejandro-Vega… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microplastics (MPs) have been identified as emerging environmental pollutants classified as
primary or secondary based on their source. Composition, shape, size, and colour, among …

Factors affecting microplastic accumulation by wild fish: A case study in the Nandu River, South China

Y Chen, Z Shen, G Li, K Wang, X Cai, X **ong… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantifying microplastic accumulation in aquatic organisms is important for risk
assessments in natural habitats. However, studies on the factors influencing microplastic …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics in biotic and abiotic compartments of high-mountain lakes from Alps

P Pastorino, S Anselmi, G Esposito, M Bertoli… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is a major environmental concern for mountain ecosystem and
for high-mountain lakes in particular, which are recognized indicators of global change. In …

Effect of land use on microplastic pollution in a major boundary waterway: the Arvand River

N Soltani, B Keshavarzi, F Moore, R Busquets… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The occurrence of microplastics (MPs) was investigated in the Arvand River (Iran). The
Arvand River (200 Km) is a major water body that flows through land with diverse use and it …

Exploiting the potential of terrestrial and freshwater organisms for biomonitoring of microplastics: Challenges and prospects

M Vaid, K Sarma, A Gupta - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging as a threat to the integrity of terrestrial and freshwater
systems globally. Interventions to reveal their abundance and associated biological impacts …

Spatio-temporal patterns of occurrence of microplastics in the freshwater fish Gambusia affinis from the Brantas River, Indonesia

NR Buwono, Y Risjani, A Soegianto - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
The first investigation of microplastics in G. affinis from the Brantas River was carried out in
this study. Microplastics were found at higher concentrations in gambusia fish captured …

Towards more ecologically relevant investigations of the impacts of microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems

A Ockenden, LA Tremblay, N Dikareva… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution is a major environmental concern and the subject of a rapidly growing
body of research. Much of this research has focused on the direct effects of microplastics on …

Abundance, characteristics, and risk assessment of microplastics in indigenous freshwater fishes of India

N Pandey, R Verma, S Patnaik, S Anbumani - Environmental research, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution has pressing concerns regarding environmental health and the
availability of safe food for humans. Information on the occurrence of MP in freshwater biota …