ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2018
Accumulation of Plastic Debris and Associated Contaminants in Aquatic Food Webs.
Article in Environmental science & technology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of microplastics in marine organisms: A review and meta-analysis of current data.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
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- Plastic pollution has the potential to alter ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic ecosystems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in freshwater organisms from Hubei, Central China: health risk assessment and source identification.RSC advances · 2025Article
- The tolerance of a keystone ecosystem engineer to extreme heat stress is hampered by microplastic leachates.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Recognition and detection technology for microplastic, its source and health effects.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Review
- (Micro)Plastics Are Toxic Pollutants.Toxics · 2023Review
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- Microplastics: A Real Global Threat for Environment and Food Safety: A State of the Art Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
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- Potential Artifacts and Control Experiments in Toxicity Tests of Nanoplastic and Microplastic Particles.Environmental science & technology · 2022Review
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- Characteristics, Toxic Effects, and Analytical Methods of Microplastics in the Atmosphere.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Long-term durability and ecotoxicity of biocomposites in marine environments: a review.RSC advances · 2021Review
- Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Abandoned Covid-19 personal protective equipment along the Bushehr shores, the Persian Gulf: An emerging source of secondary microplastics in coastlines.Marine pollution bulletin · 2021Article
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Abstract
We present a generic theoretical model (MICROWEB) that simulates the transfer of microplastics and hydrophobic organic chemicals (HOC) in food webs. We implemented the model for an Arctic case comprised of nine species including Atlantic cod and polar bear as top predator. We used the model to examine the effect of plastic ingestion on trophic transfer of microplastics and persistent HOCs (PCBs) and metabolizable HOCs (PAHs), spanning a wide range of hydrophobicities. In a scenario where HOCs in plastic and water are in equilibrium, PCBs biomagnify less when more microplastic is ingested, because PCBs biomagnify less well from ingested plastic than from regular food. In contrast, PAHs biomagnify more when more microplastic is ingested, because plastic reduces the fraction of PAHs available for metabolization. We also explore nonequilibrium scenarios representative of additives that are leaching out, as well as sorbing HOCs, quantitatively showing how the above trends are strengthened and weakened, respectively. The observed patterns were not very sensitive to modifications in the structure of the food web. The model can be used as a tool to assess prospective risks of exposure to microplastics and complex HOC mixtures for any food web, including those with relevance for human health.
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