Incorporation of microplastics from litter into burrows of Lumbricus terrestris

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 220, Issue , 2017, Pages 523-531

  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

Lumbricus terrestris burrows; Microplastics; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LEACHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; SURFACE TREATMENT; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GROUNDWATER BODIES; INCORPORATION RATES; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; MICROPLASTICS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS;

MICROPLASTIC;

GROUND WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE;

ANNELID; BIOTURBATION; BURROW; PLASTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; LEACHING; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; OLIGOCHAETA; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; OLIGOCHAETA; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTICS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84992199816     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.096     Document Type: Article

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