ArticleEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2021
Microplastics impair growth in two atlantic scleractinian coral species, Pseudodiploria clivosa and Acropora cervicornis.
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- What are the toxicity thresholds of chemical pollutants for tropical reef-building corals? A systematic review.Environmental evidence · 2023Pooled it
- From Enrichment to Fate: Transport, Transformation, and Fate of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Marine Environments.Toxics · 2026Review
- Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure.Coral reefs (Online) · 2025Article
- Effects of microplastic and heavy metals on coral reefs: A new window for analytical research.Heliyon · 2023Review
- 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
- Microplastics in mangroves and coral reef ecosystems: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022Review
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Abstract
Scleractinian coral are experiencing global and regional stressors. Microplastics (<5 mm) are an additional stressor that may cause adverse effects on coral. Experiments were conducted to investigate ingestion size limits and retention times of microspheres in a two-day exposure as well as observing growth responses in a 12-week exposure in two Atlantic species, Pseudodiploria clivosa and Acropora cervicornis. In the two-day exposure, P. clivosa ingested a higher number of microspheres ranging in size from 425 μm-2.8 mm than A. cervicornis. Both species egested the majority of microspheres within 48 h of ingestion. In the long-term exposure, calcification and tissue surface area were negatively affected in the treatment group of both species. Exposure also negatively affected buoyant weight in A. cervicornis but not in P. clivosa. The results indicate that microplastics can affect growth responses, yet additional research is warranted to investigate potential synergistic impacts of microplastics and other stressors.
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