Zooplankton grazing of microplastic can accelerate global loss of ocean oxygen

First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch

(2020) Matthias Egger et al.   Scientific Reports

High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean

(2020) Katsiaryna Pabortsava et al.   Nature Communications

The global biological microplastic particle sink

(2020) K. Kvale et al.   Scientific Reports

The Role of Zooplankton in Establishing Carbon Export Regimes in the Southern Ocean – A Comparison of Two Representative Case Studies in the Subantarctic Region

(2020) Svenja Halfter et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Currently monitored microplastics pose negligible ecological risk to the global ocean

(2020) Ricardo Beiras et al.   Scientific Reports

Microplastic Ingestion by Gelatinous Zooplankton May Lower Efficiency of the Biological Pump

(2019) Alina M. Wieczorek et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The vertical distribution and biological transport of marine microplastics across the epipelagic and mesopelagic water column

(2019) C. Anela Choy et al.   Scientific Reports

Abundance of floating plastic particles is increasing in the western North Atlantic Ocean

(2019) Chris Wilcox et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Can microplastics pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration?

(2019) Maocai Shen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics increase the marine production of particulate forms of organic matter

(2019) Luisa Galgani et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Drivers and mechanisms of ocean deoxygenation

(2018) Andreas Oschlies et al.   Nature Geoscience

Polystyrene microplastics increase microbial release of marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in microcosm experiments

(2018) Luisa Galgani et al.   Scientific Reports

Plastic microbeads from cosmetic products: an experimental study of their hydrodynamic behaviour, vertical transport and resuspension in phytoplankton and sediment aggregates

(2018) Paula Möhlenkamp et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Bioavailability and effects of microplastics on marine zooplankton: A review

(2018) Zara L.R. Botterell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades

(2017) Sunke Schmidtko et al.   NATURE

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Microplastics Alter the Properties and Sinking Rates of Zooplankton Faecal Pellets

(2016) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Explicit Planktic Calcifiers in the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model, Version 2.9

(2015) K. F. Kvale et al.   ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN

Potential increasing dominance of heterotrophy in the global ocean

(2015) K F Kvale et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The Impact of Polystyrene Microplastics on Feeding, Function and Fecundity in the Marine Copepod Calanus helgolandicus

(2015) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Microplastic Ingestion by Zooplankton

(2013) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300

(2011) Malte Meinshausen et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2and Surface Temperature Perturbations

(2008) M. Eby et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE