Screening for microplastic particles in plankton samples: How to integrate marine litter assessment into existing monitoring programs?

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 271-275

  Gorokhova, Elena ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Copepods; Marine litter; Pelagic microplastics; Vertical distribution; Zooplankton monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; MARINE POLLUTION;

BALTIC SEA; COPEPODS; MARINE LITTER; MICROPLASTICS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SCREENING;

MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOMONITORING; MARINE POLLUTION; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; PLASTIC; POLLUTION MONITORING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA POLLUTION; SUMMER; WINTER; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BALTIC STATES; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEA; SEASON; WATER POLLUTANT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

COPEPODA;

ANIMALS; BALTIC STATES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; PLASTICS; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84944281270     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.07.056     Document Type: Article

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