Characteristics and ecological risks of microplastic pollution in a tropical drinking water source reservoir in Hainan province, China-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Characteristics and ecological risks of microplastic pollution in a tropical drinking water source reservoir in Hainan province, China

Published:2024 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2050-7887
Container-title:Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts

Author:

Mo Ling¹,Fu Hongyu²³,Lu Qiyuan²,Chen Sifan²⁴,Liu Ruijuan²,Xiang Jun²,Xing Qiao¹,Wang Licheng¹,Sun Kexin⁵,Li Bowen²^ORCID,Zheng Jing²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Hainan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Haikou 571126, PR China

2. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Health Risk Assessment, Research Center of Emerging Contaminants, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China

3. School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 561113, China

4. Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, Liaoning, China

5. South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China

Abstract

The overall abundance of microplastics in water was 3.05 ± 1.16 items per L and in sediment was 0.15 ± 0.06 items per g dw. The pollution load index and the potential ecological hazards of microplastics in most sites are at a low level.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Environmental Chemistry,General Medicine

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/EM/D3EM00528C

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