Leachate from microplastics impairs larval development in brown mussels

Water Research

Volumn 106, Issue , 2016, Pages 364-370

  Gandara e Silva, Pablo Pena ^a   Nobre, Caio Rodrigues ^b   Resaffe, Pryscila ^c   Pereira, Camilo Dias Seabra ^b,c   Gusmão, Felipe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE SANTA CECÍLIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beach; Ecotoxicology; Embryo development; Mollusc; Persistent organic pollutants; Plastic pellets

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; CONSERVATION; CONTAMINATION; DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMPURITIES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE POLLUTION; MOLLUSCS; TESTING; TOXICITY;

ECO-TOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEACHATES; MARINE BIOTA; MARINE ORGANISMS; MICROPLASTICS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PLASTIC PELLETS; TOXIC EFFECT;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

PLASTIC; POLYPROPYLENE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEACHATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; PLASTIC; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MORTALITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEACHING; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PERNA PERNA; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

MOLLUSCA; PERNA PERNA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLASTICS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84991254530     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.10.016     Document Type: Article

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