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Francisca Espincho, Rúben Pereira, Sabrina M. Rodrigues, Diogo M. Silva, C. Marisa R. Almeida and Sandra Ramos
The present work aims to evaluate the MP contamination of zooplankton and its impact on MP trophic transfers at the lower levels of the food web in a field study. During 1 year, seasonal surveys were conducted to collect zooplankton and water samples fro...
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Fei Li, S. G. Cheung, P. K. S. Shin, Xiaoshou Liu, Yanan Li and Fanghong Mu
Ocean acidification threatens marine organisms continuously. To ascertain if adaptation of marine species to ocean acidification enhanced over multiple generations, we studied the transgenerational effects of ocean acidification on the development, repro...
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Gabriella Caruso, Valentina Iannilli, Giulia Vitale, Massimiliano Vardè, Marco Oliverio, Sara Bogialli, Lucio Litti, Andrea Setini, Beatrice Rosso and Fabiana Corami
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing several transformations because of global climate change. Small microplastics (SMPs) or nanoplastics (NPs) carried by marine aerosols may settle in the land ice and be released to the waters, produced following its melting....
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Lucía Soliño, Sea-Yong Kim, Alfredo López, Pablo Covelo, Sara Rydberg, Pedro Reis Costa and Sandra Lage
The neurotoxin ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a non-proteinogenic amino acid produced by several species of both prokaryotic (cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic (diatoms) microorganisms, has been proposed to be associated with the development of neurodegen...
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Cristina Gioia Di Camillo, Giorgia Luzi, Afghan Danial, Luciano Di Florio, Barbara Calcinai, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Jéssica Luana Santana Mendonça de Oliveira, Agnese Fumanti and Carlo Cerrano
The macrofauna in the intertidal zone of sandy beaches provides the trophic connectivity between land and sea, by linking microbiome, meiofauna, and megafauna, representing a food source for several terrestrial animals, including shorebirds and mammals. ...
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Kyung-Woo Park, Hyun-Ju Oh, Su-Yeon Moon, Man-Ho Yoo and Seok-Hyun Youn
After the construction of the Three Gorges Dam (Changjiang River), the northern East China Sea has been exposed to major environmental changes in the summer due to climate change and freshwater control. However, little is known regarding phytoplankton in...
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Elena Robakiewicz, Daniela de Matos, Jeffery R. Stone and Annett Junginger
Diatoms, a common siliceous alga, are effective paleoclimate and pollution indicators. They have been used in northern, eastern, and southern Africa as such because of well-documented ecologies of many taxa. In southwestern Africa, however, the country o...
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Georgios Fytianos, Efthimia Ioannidou, Anna Thysiadou, Athanasios C. Mitropoulos and George Z. Kyzas
The aim of this paper is to present information gathered from studies regarding the current status and challenges of microplastics (MPs) in Mediterranean coastal counties. MPs are considered emerging pollutants, and their effect on fish and on the final ...
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Judith S. Weis
While there are numerous papers on microplastics (mps) being published every week, there is a need for improvement for the field to mature. The papers reporting numbers found in water bodies cannot be compared because there are no standard methods for co...
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Sophie Gentès, Mathilde Monperrus, Alexia Legeay, Claire Gassie, Régine Maury-Brachet, Jean-Marc André and Rémy Guyoneaud
The freshwater lakes of southwestern France are subject to the development of invasive macrophytes which are associated with mercury (Hg) contamination of the food web. The aim of this study was to determine the bioavailability of methylmercury (MeHg) pr...
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