ArticlePNAS nexus2023
Pelagic microplastics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: A prevalent anthropogenic component of the particulate organic carbon pool.
Article in PNAS nexus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Entangled stressors: a review on the interactions between microplastics and climate change in aquatic ecosystems.Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Review
- Coupling fragmentation to a size-selective sedimentation model can quantify the long-term fate of buoyant plastics in the ocean.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
- Settling and Along-Isopycnal Subduction of Small Microplastics Into Subsurface Layers of the Western North Pacific Ocean.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Evaluating the environmental impact of cleaning the North Pacific Garbage Patch.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Microplastic contaminants potentially distort our understanding of the ocean's carbon cycle.PloS one · 2025Article
- Vertical Flux of Microplastics in the Deep Subtropical Pacific Ocean: Moored Sediment-Trap Observations within the Kuroshio Extension Recirculation Gyre.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Plastics and Micro/Nano-Plastics (MNPs) in the Environment: Occurrence, Impact, and Toxicity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Due to its ever-increasing ocean inputs, fossil-based microplastics (MP) comprise a considerable constituent in the particulate organic carbon (POC) pool, which is instrumental in ocean biogeochemical cycling. Their distribution within the oceanic water column and the underpinning processes, however, remain unclear. Here we show that MP prevail throughout the water column of the eastern North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, comprising 334 #/m
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