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Effects of microplastics on the functional traits of aquatic benthic organisms: A global-scale meta-analysis

2021

Microplastics are widespread in the aquatic environment and thus available for many organisms at different trophic levels. Many scientific papers focus their attention on the study of the effects of microplastics on different species at individual level. Here we performed a global scale meta-analysis focusing our work on the study of the effect of microplastics on the functional traits of aquatic benthic organisms. Overall, microplastics showed a moderate negative effect on the examined functional traits of benthic organisms. Our results show that some crucial functional traits, such as those linked to behaviour and feeding, appear to be unaffected by microplastics. In contrast, traits rela…

Benthic organisms Ecological level Freshwater Functional traits Marine meta-Analysis Microplastics Aquatic Organisms Ecosystem Environmental Monitoring Plastics Microplastics Water Pollutants ChemicalAquatic OrganismsMicroplastics010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesPopulation levelMicroplasticsHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesis010501 environmental sciencesBiologyToxicology01 natural sciencesEcosystemEcosystem0105 earth and related environmental sciencesTrophic levelEcologyScale (chemistry)General MedicineIndividual levelPollution13. Climate actionBenthic zoneAquatic environmentPlasticsWater Pollutants ChemicalEnvironmental MonitoringEnvironmental Pollution
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Relazione tra le densità di Dendropoma petraeum e la microtopografia del reef a vermeti”

2011

Habitat structure habitat formers microtopography benthic organisms Vermetid reef
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