ReviewEmerging topics in life sciences2022
Plastic pollution of four understudied marine ecosystems: a review of mangroves, seagrass meadows, the Arctic Ocean and the deep seafloor.
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- Plastics and Sustainable Development - Identifying and Quantifying Ecodesign Strategies for Plastics.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2026Review
- IdentifiedApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Patterns and implications of plastic accumulation in mangrove ecosystems and sandy beaches in Western and Central regions of Ghana, West Africa.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Article
- Adsorption in Action: Molecular Dynamics as a Tool to Study Adsorption at the Surface of Fine Plastic Particles in Aquatic Environments.ACS omega · 2024Review
- Plastiglomerates from uncontrolled burning of plastic waste on Indonesian beaches contain high contents of organic pollutants.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Plastic pollution is now a worldwide phenomenon affecting all marine ecosystems, but some ecosystems and regions remain understudied. Here, we review the presence and impacts of macroplastics and microplastics for four such ecosystems: mangroves, seagrass meadows, the Arctic Ocean and the deep seafloor. Plastic production has grown steadily, and thus the impact on species and ecosystems has increased, too. The accumulated evidence also indicates that plastic pollution is an additional and increasing stressor to these already ecosystems and many of the species living in them. However, laboratory or field studies, which provide strong correlational or experimental evidence of ecological harm due to plastic pollution remain scarce or absent for these ecosystems. Based on these findings, we give some research recommendations for the future.
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