DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.01.050
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85044630465
论文题名: Microplastics in a wind farm area: A case study at the Rudong Offshore Wind Farm, Yellow Sea, China
作者: Wang T. ; Zou X. ; Li B. ; Yao Y. ; Li J. ; Hui H. ; Yu W. ; Wang C.
刊名: Marine Pollution Bulletin
ISSN: 0025-326X
EISSN: 1879-3363
出版年: 2018
卷: 128 起始页码: 466
结束页码: 474
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Bed shear stress
; Human activity
; Microplastic
; Offshore wind farm
; Yellow Sea
Scopus关键词: Coastal zones
; Electric utilities
; River pollution
; Sediments
; Shear stress
; Surface waters
; Bed shear stresss
; Emerging pollutants
; Human activities
; Hydrodynamic effect
; Local distributions
; Microplastic
; Wastewater discharge
; Yellow sea
; Offshore wind farms
; microplastic
; plastic
; surface water
; unclassified drug
; coastal zone
; human activity
; plastic waste
; sediment pollution
; shear stress
; water pollution
; wind farm
; Article
; case study
; China
; environmental monitoring
; hydrodynamics
; pollution
; sea
; seashore
; sediment
; waste water
; wind power
; China
; Jiangsu
; Pacific Ocean
; Rudong
; Yellow Sea
Scopus学科分类: Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要: Despite the rapid construction of offshore wind farms, the available information regarding the risks of this type of development in terms of emerging pollutants, particularly microplastics, is scarce. In this study, we quantified the level of microplastic pollution at an offshore wind farm in the Yellow Sea, China, in 2016. The abundance of microplastics was 0.330 ± 0.278 items/m3 in the surface water and 2.58 ± 1.14 items/g (dry) in the sediment. To the best of our knowledge, the level of microplastic pollution in our study area was slightly higher than that in coastal areas around the world. The microplastics detected in the surface waters and sediments were mainly fibrous (75.3% and 68.7%, respectively) and consisted of some granules and films. The microplastics in the samples might originate from garments or ropes via wastewater discharge. The abundance of plastic in the water and sediment samples collected from the wind farm area was lower than that in the samples collected from outside the wind farm area. The anthropogenic hydrodynamic effect was the main factor affecting the local distribution of microplastics. The presence of a wind farm could increase the bed shear stress during ebb tide, disturbing the bed sediment, facilitating its initiation and transport, and ultimately increasing the ease of washing away the microplastics adhered to the sediment. This study will serve as a reference for further studies of the distribution and migration of microplastics in coastal zones subjected to similar marine utilization. © 2018 Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/88433
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作者单位: School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Coastal and Island Development, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nantong, China
Recommended Citation:
Wang T.,Zou X.,Li B.,et al. Microplastics in a wind farm area: A case study at the Rudong Offshore Wind Farm, Yellow Sea, China[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2018-01-01,128