Microplastics in the Terrestrial Ecosystem: Implications for Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2685-2691

  Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza ^a,b   Gertsen, Hennie ^b   Gooren, Harm ^b   Peters, Piet ^b   Salánki, Tamás ^b   Van Der Ploeg, Martine ^b   Besseling, Ellen ^b   Koelmans, Albert A ^b   Geissen, Violette ^b  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; ION BEAMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOTURBATION; CONTROL TREATMENTS; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; MICROPLASTICS; PLASTIC DEBRIS; SIZE SELECTION; SIZE-SELECTIVE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

MICROPLASTIC; ORGANIC MATTER; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIOTURBATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FAUNA; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; LITTER; ORGANIC MATTER; PLASTIC; SURVIVAL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOTURBATION; COCOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DRY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NETHERLANDS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

LUMBRICIDAE; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NETHERLANDS; OLIGOCHAETA; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84959527542     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05478     Document Type: Article

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