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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583301803321

Titolo

Microplastic contamination in aquatic environments : an emerging matter of environmental urgency / / edited by Eddy Y. Zeng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , [2018]

ISBN

0-12-813748-7

0-12-813747-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

363.61

Soggetti

Fresh water - Environmental aspects

Microplastics

Water - Pollution

Plastic marine debris

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Marine Microplastics : Abundance, Distribution, and Composition / Won Joon Shim, Sang Hee Hong and Soeun Eo -- Limitations for Microplastic Quantification in the Ocean and Recommendations for Improvement and Standardization / Shiye Zhao, Lixin Zhu, Lei Gao, Daoji Li -- Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Systems : Methodological Challenges, Occurrence and Sources / Rachid Dris, Hannes K. Imhof, Martin G.J. Löder, Johnny Gasperi, Christian Laforsch, Bruno Tassin -- Occurrence, Fate, and Effect of Microplastics in Freshwater Systems / Dafne Eerkes-Medrano and Richard Thompson -- The Occurrence, Fate, and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment / Wai Chin Li -- Behavior of Microplastics in Coastal Zones / Irina Chubarenko, Elena Esiukova, Andrei Bagaev, Igor Isachenko, Natalia Nemchenko, Mikhail Zobkov, Irina Efimova, Margarita Bagaeva, Lilia Khatmullina -- Sorption of Toxic Chemicals on Microplastics / Fen Wang, Fei Wang and Eddy Y. Zeng -- The Effects of Microplastic Pollution on Aquatic Organisms / S. Michele Harmon -- Chemicals Associated With Marine Plastic Debris and Microplastics : Analyses and Contaminant Levels / Sang Hee Hong, Won Joon Shim and Mi Jang -- Occurrence and Fate of Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants / Huase Ou, Eddy Y. Zeng



-- Microplastics in Marine Food Webs / Outi Setälä, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Rachel Coppock, Matthew Cole -- Microplastics in the Terrestrial Environment / Lei Mai, Lian-Jun Bao, Charles S. Wong, Eddy Y. Zeng -- Nanoplastics in the Aquatic Environment / Karin Mattsson, Simonne Jocic, Isa Doverbratt, Lars-Anders Hansson.