National-scale distribution of micro(meso)plastics in farmland soils across China: Implications for environmental impacts

The occurrence of microplastics in farmland and grassland soils in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau: Different land use and mulching time in facility agriculture

(2021) Sansan Feng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Occurrence, distribution and affecting factors of microplastics in agricultural soils along the lower reaches of Yangtze River, China

(2021) Lu Cao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A Review of Microplastics in Table salt, Drinking Water, and Air: Direct Human Exposure

(2020) Qun Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ranking environmental degradation trends of plastic marine debris based on physical properties and molecular structure

(2020) Kyungjun Min et al.   Nature Communications

Agricultural plastic mulching as a source of microplastics in the terrestrial environment

(2020) Yi Huang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of Microplastic Fibers and Drought on Plant Communities

(2020) Yudi M. Lozano et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long‐term food security

(2020) Dan Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global response patterns of plant photosynthesis to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis

(2020) Xingyun Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exploring the interaction between polystyrene nanoplastics and Allium cepa during germination: Internalization in root cells, induction of toxicity and oxidative stress

(2020) Lucia Giorgetti et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Microplastics affect sedimentary microbial communities and nitrogen cycling

(2020) Meredith E. Seeley et al.   Nature Communications

Differentially charged nanoplastics demonstrate distinct accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2020) Xiao-Dong Sun et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Microplastic in terrestrial ecosystems

(2020) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   SCIENCE

LDPE microplastics significantly alter the temporal turnover of soil microbial communities

(2020) Jie Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The occurrence and distribution characteristics of microplastics in the agricultural soils of Shaanxi Province, in north-western China

(2020) Ling Ding et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Physiological responses of garden cress (L. sativum) to different types of microplastics

(2020) Sara Pignattelli et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions

(2020) N. Evangeliou et al.   Nature Communications

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   Science Advances

Plastic and plants

(2020) Matthias C. Rillig   Nature Sustainability

Effective uptake of submicrometre plastics by crop plants via a crack-entry mode

(2020) Lianzhen Li et al.   Nature Sustainability

Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils

(2020) Manish Kumar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Distinct microplastic distributions in soils of different land-use types: A case study of Chinese farmlands

(2020) Jiao Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biodegradation and disintegration of expanded polystyrene by land snails Achatina fulica

(2020) Yang Song et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Distribution characteristics of microplastics in agricultural soils from the largest vegetable production base in China

(2020) Lu Yu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics Can Change Soil Properties and Affect Plant Performance

(2019) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment

(2019) Steve Allen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Uptake and adverse effects of polyethylene terephthalate microplastics fibers on terrestrial snails (Achatina fulica) after soil exposure

(2019) Yang Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of polyester microfibers on soil physical properties: Perception from a field and a pot experiment

(2019) G.S. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics as Both a Sink and a Source of Bisphenol A in the Marine Environment

(2019) Xuemin Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground

(2019) Bas Boots et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

(2019) Melanie Bergmann et al.   Science Advances

Particulate plastics as a vector for toxic trace-element uptake by aquatic and terrestrial organisms and human health risk

(2019) Lauren Bradney et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security

(2019) Peter M. Kopittke et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

LDPE microplastic films alter microbial community composition and enzymatic activities in soil

(2019) Yi Huang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastic pollution in vegetable farmlands of suburb Wuhan, central China

(2019) Yuling Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat rhizosphere and soil properties

(2019) Yueling Qi et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

A method for extracting soil microplastics through circulation of sodium bromide solutions

(2019) Mengting Liu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Response of soil enzyme activities and bacterial communities to the accumulation of microplastics in an acid cropped soil

(2019) Yufan Fei et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics in agricultural soils on the coastal plain of Hangzhou Bay, east China: Multiple sources other than plastic mulching film

(2019) Bianying Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Microplastic and mesoplastic pollution in farmland soils in suburbs of Shanghai, China

(2018) Mengting Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastic contamination of river beds significantly reduced by catchment-wide flooding

(2018) Rachel Hurley et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microplastics research—from sink to source

(2018) Chelsea M. Rochman   SCIENCE

Microplastics in sewage sludge from the wastewater treatment plants in China

(2018) Xiaowei Li et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

(2018) Ilka Peeken et al.   Nature Communications

Polystyrene (nano)microplastics cause size-dependent neurotoxicity, oxidative damages and other adverse effects in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2018) Lili Lei et al.   Environmental Science-Nano

Microplastics in soils: Analytical methods, pollution characteristics and ecological risks

(2018) Defu He et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Combined Effects of UV Exposure Duration and Mechanical Abrasion on Microplastic Fragmentation by Polymer Type

(2017) Young Kyoung Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic Incorporation into Soil in Agroecosystems

(2017) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Microplastics in the Terrestrial Ecosystem: Implications for Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

(2016) Esperanza Huerta Lwanga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic in Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Soil?

(2012) Matthias C. Rillig   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA