Uptake and retention of microplastics by the shore crab carcinus maenas

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 8823-8830

  Watts, Andrew J R ^a   Lewis, Ceri ^a   Goodhead, Rhys M ^a   Beckett, Stephen J ^a   Moger, Julian ^a   Tyler, Charles R ^a   Galloway, Tamara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE POLLUTION; MICROSPHERES;

CARCINUS MAENAS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIETARY EXPOSURE; EXTERNAL SURFACES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPHOTON IMAGING; ORAL INGESTION; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE;

SHELLFISH;

MICROPLASTIC; MICROSPHERE; PLASTIC; POLYSTYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; CARCINUS MAENAS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GILL; INGESTION; INTESTINE; MYTILUS EDULIS; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; PHARMACOKINETICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GILLS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYTILUS EDULIS; PLASTICS; POLYSTYRENES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84905668381     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501090e     Document Type: Article

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