ArticleBiology letters2020
Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan
Article in Biology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Interfacial Interactions betweenThe journal of physical chemistry. B · 2026Article
- Trends in Antarctic soil fungal research in the context of environmental changes.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Review
- Nanoplastics and Neurodegeneration in ALS.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Evaluation of the Deterioration of Untreated Commercial Polystyrene by Psychrotrophic Antarctic Bacterium.Polymers · 2023Article
- The need for environmentally realistic studies on the health effects of terrestrial microplastics.Microplastics and nanoplastics · 2023Article
- Anthropogenic microparticles in the emerald rockcod Trematomus bernacchii (Nototheniidae) from the Antarctic.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Impact of waste of COVID-19 protective equipment on the environment, animals and human health: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022Review
- Soil Invertebrates Generate Microplastics From Polystyrene Foam Debris.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2022Article
- Addressing the environmental and health impacts of microplastics requires open collaboration between diverse sectors.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Biodeterioration of Untreated Polypropylene Microplastic Particles by Antarctic Bacteria.Polymers · 2020Article
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Abstract
There is evidence and serious concern that microplastics have reached the most remote regions of the planet, but how far have they travelled in terrestrial ecosystems? This study presents the first field-based evidence of plastic ingestion by a common and central component of Antarctic terrestrial food webs, the collembolan
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