Contamination
; Ingestion (engines)
; Marine pollution
; Average length
; Fish larvae
; Mesh size
; Microplastics
; nocv1
; Northern South China Sea
; South China sea
; Trophic level
; Zooplankton
; Iodine
; microplastic
; plastic
; polyester
; unclassified drug
; sea water
; water pollutant
; abundance
; ingestion rate
; sampling
; zooplankton
; Article
; Chaetognatha
; controlled study
; copepod
; fish
; ingestion
; jellyfish
; larva
; nonhuman
; particle size
; sampling
; sea
; shrimp
; trophic level
; zooplankton
; animal
; China
; eating
; environmental monitoring
; water pollutant
; Pacific Ocean
; South China Sea
; Chaetognatha
; Copepoda
; Decapoda (Crustacea)
; Scyphozoa
; Animals
; China
; Copepoda
; Eating
; Environmental Monitoring
; Plastics
; Seawater
; Water Pollutants
; Zooplankton
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
The ingestion of microplastics by five natural zooplankton groups in the northern South China Sea was studied for the first time and two types of sampling nets (505�μm and 160�μm in mesh size) were compared. The microplastics were detected in zooplankton sampled from 16 stations, with the fibrous microplastics accounting for the largest proportion (70%). The main component of the found microplastics was polyester. The average length of the microplastics was 125�μm and 167�μm for Nets I and II, respectively. The encounter rates of microplastics/zooplankton increased with trophic levels. The average encounter rate of microplastics/zooplankton was 5%, 15%, 34%, 49%, and 120% for Net I, and 8%, 21%, 47%, 60%, and 143% for Net II for copepods, chaetognaths, jellyfish, shrimp, and fish larvae, respectively. The average abundance of microplastics that were ingested by zooplankton was 4.1�pieces/m3for Net I and 131.5�pieces/m3for Net II. � 2016 Elsevier Ltd
Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
Recommended Citation:
Sun X.,Li Q.,Zhu M.,et al. Ingestion of microplastics by natural zooplankton groups in the northern South China Sea[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,115(2018-01-02)