Measurement of microplastic settling velocities and implications for residence times in thermally stratified lakes

Reconstructing the Environmental Degradation of Polystyrene by Accelerated Weathering

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Biodegradable Polymers: Present Opportunities and Challenges in Providing a Microplastic‐Free Environment

(2020) Seema Agarwal   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Sinking of microbial-associated microplastics in natural waters

(2020) Thu Ha Nguyen et al.   PLoS One

Characteristics and Sinking Behavior of Typical Microplastics Including the Potential Effect of Biofouling: Implications for Remediation

(2020) Michiel Van Melkebeke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Biofouling, metal sorption and aggregation are related to sinking of microplastics in a stratified reservoir

(2020) Rico Leiser et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Biofilm formation and its influences on the properties of microplastics as affected by exposure time and depth in the seawater

(2020) Chen Tu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Structural Diversity in Early-Stage Biofilm Formation on Microplastics Depends on Environmental Medium and Polymer Properties

(2020) Anja F. R. M. Ramsperger et al.   Water

Effects of Particle Properties on the Settling and Rise Velocities of Microplastics in Freshwater under Laboratory Conditions

(2019) Kryss Waldschläger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Review of micro- and nanoplastic contamination in the food chain

(2019) Brigitte Toussaint et al.   Food Additives and Contaminants Part A-Chemistry Analysis Control Exposure & Risk Assessment

Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal

(2019) Jing Sun et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators

(2018) Sarah E. Nelms et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Impact of polystyrene microplastics on Daphnia magna mortality and reproduction in relation to food availability

(2018) Rana Aljaibachi et al.   PeerJ

Rapid aggregation of biofilm-covered microplastics with marine biogenic particles

(2018) Jan Michels et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics

(2017) David Kaiser et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Settling velocity of microplastic particles of regular shapes

(2017) Liliya Khatmullina et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Anthropogenic fibres in the Baltic Sea water column: Field data, laboratory and numerical testing of their motion

(2017) A. Bagaev et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of Biofilm Formation on the Fate and Potential Effects of Microplastic in the Aquatic Environment

(2017) Christoph D. Rummel et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Microplastic pollution in lakes and lake shoreline sediments – A case study on Lake Bolsena and Lake Chiusi (central Italy)

(2016) Elke Kerstin Fischer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics Alter the Properties and Sinking Rates of Zooplankton Faecal Pellets

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

Biomixing due to diel vertical migrations of zooplankton: Comparison of computational fluid dynamics model with observations

(2016) Cayla Dean et al.   OCEAN MODELLING

Effect of water temperature on biofouling development in reverse osmosis membrane systems

(2016) N.M. Farhat et al.   WATER RESEARCH

The mechanism of hypolimnion warming induced by internal waves

(2015) Aminadav Nishri et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A critical overview of the analytical approaches to the occurrence, the fate and the behavior of microplastics in the environment

(2015) Teresa Rocha-Santos et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review

(2013) Stephanie L. Wright et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris

(2013) Erik R. Zettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Modeling sinking rate of zooplankton carcasses: Effects of stratification and mixing

(2012) Georgiy Kirillin et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS