ArticleMarine pollution bulletin2018
Scleractinian coral microplastic ingestion: Potential calcification effects, size limits, and retention.
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- Formation and Transformation of Micro(nano)plastics: Mechanisms and Environmental Health Implications.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Studying Microplastic Incorporation into Corals Using CARS.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure.Coral reefs (Online) · 2025Article
- Microplastic Leachate Negatively Affects Fertilization in the Coral Montipora capitata.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Article
- Microplastic pollution: a review of techniques to identify microplastics and their threats to the aquatic ecosystem.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2024Review
- Editorial: The physiological response of aquatic invertebrates to pollution.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Microplastics: impacts on corals and other reef organisms.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Article
- Microplastic ingestion by coral as a function of the interaction between calyx and microplastic size.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- No short-term effect of sinking microplastics on heterotrophy or sediment clearing in the tropical coral Stylophora pistillata.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Microplastics do not affect bleaching ofPeerJ · 2022Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic face mask waste: A blooming threat to the marine environment.Chemosphere · 2021Review
- Microplastics impair growth in two atlantic scleractinian coral species, Pseudodiploria clivosa and Acropora cervicornis.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021Article
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- Effects of Microplastics Exposure on theFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Response of Coral Reef Dinoflagellates to Nanoplastics under Experimental Conditions Suggests Downregulation of Cellular Metabolism.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Ubiquitous macropinocytosis in anthozoans.eLife · 2020Article
- Microplastics ingestion and heterotrophy in thermally stressed corals.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
The impact that microplastics (<5 mm) have on scleractinian coral is largely unknown. This study investigated calcification effects, size limits, and retention times of microbeads and microfibers in two Caribbean species, Montastraea cavernosa and Orbicella faveolata, in a series of three experiments. No calcification effects were seen in the two-day exposure to a microbead concentration of 30 mg L
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