No microplastics in benthic eelpout (Zoarces viviparus): An urgent need for spectroscopic analyses in microplastic detection

Environmental Research

Volumn 148, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-38

  Wesch, Charlotte ^a   Barthel, Anne Kathrin ^b   Braun, Ulrike ^c   Klein, Roland ^a   Paulus, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ingestion; Microfibre; Misidentification; Monitoring; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CELLOPHANE; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYMER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BENTHIC FAUNA; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INGESTION RATE; PERCIFORM; PLASTIC; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER POLLUTION; ZOARCES VIVIPARUS; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PERCIFORMES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ZOARCES VIVIPARUS; ZOARCIDAE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PERCIFORMES; POLYMERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84961118771     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.03.017     Document Type: Article

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