ArticleNature communications2023
Microplastic burden in marine benthic invertebrates depends on species traits and feeding ecology within biogeographical provinces.
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- Microplastics and Nitrite Stress Affect Physiological and Metabolic Functions of the Hepatopancreas in Marine Shrimp.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
- Zoo gut plastispheres enable pathogen escape and adaptation.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Testicular mitochondrial redox imbalance and impaired oxidative phosphorylation underlie microplastic-induced testicular dysfunction in Wistar rats.Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Article
- A step towards microlitter risk assessment: modelling microlitter storage potential of the UK seabed.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
- The feeding mode effect: influence on particle ingestion by four invertebrates from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Article
- Microplastics enhance the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in mariculture sediments by enriching host bacteria and promoting horizontal gene transfer.Eco-Environment & Health · 2025Article
- Bottom-Feeders Eat Their Fiber: Ingestion of Anthropogenic Microdebris by Antarctic Deep-Sea Invertebrates Depends on Feeding Ecology.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The microplastic body burden of marine animals is often assumed to reflect levels of environmental contamination, yet variations in feeding ecology and regional trait expression could also affect a species' risk of contaminant uptake. Here, we explore the global inventory of individual microplastic body burden for invertebrate species inhabiting marine sediments across 16 biogeographic provinces. We show that individual microplastic body burden in benthic invertebrates cannot be fully explained by absolute levels of microplastic contamination in the environment, because interspecific differences in behaviour and feeding ecology strongly determine microplastic uptake. Our analyses also indicate a degree of species-specific particle selectivity; likely associated with feeding biology. Highest microplastic burden occurs in the Yellow and Mediterranean Seas and, contrary to expectation, amongst omnivores, predators, and deposit feeders rather than suspension feeding species. Our findings highlight the inadequacy of microplastic uptake risk assessments based on inventories of environmental contamination alone, and the need to understand how species behaviour and trait expression covary with microplastic contamination.
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