Contamination from microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in the digestive tracts of the commercial species Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardina pilchardus

Coastal gradients of small microplastics and associated pollutants influenced by estuarine sources

(2022) Enrique González-Ortegón et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Evidence of Microplastic Translocation in Wild-Caught Fish and Implications for Microplastic Accumulation Dynamics in Food Webs

(2021) Hayley K. McIlwraith et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Unravelling spatio-temporal patterns of suspended microplastic concentration in the Natura 2000 Guadalquivir estuary (SW Spain): Observations and model simulations

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Microplastic pollution in wastewater treatment plants in the city of Cádiz: Abundance, removal efficiency and presence in receiving water body

(2021) A.A. Franco et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of benthic by–catches from an eastern Mediterranean deep–sea environment

(2021) Giuseppe Esposito et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Are we underestimating microplastic abundance in the marine environment? A comparison of microplastic capture with nets of different mesh-size

(2020) Penelope K. Lindeque et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Global distribution of microplastics and its impact on marine environment—a review

(2020) Nithin Ajith et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Plastics occurrence in juveniles of Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardina pilchardus in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea

(2020) Serena Savoca et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Estimating the size distribution of plastics ingested by animals

(2020) Ifan B. Jâms et al.   Nature Communications

Immunotoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics in different hemocyte subpopulations of Mytilus galloprovincialis

(2020) Marta Sendra et al.   Scientific Reports

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   Science Advances

Ingestion of microplastics and occurrence of parasite association in Mediterranean anchovy and sardine

(2020) Maria Grazia Pennino et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Size matters: Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model to study toxicity of nanoplastics from cells to the whole organism

(2020) M. Sendra et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates

(2020) Sergio López‐Martínez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mapping microplastics in Cadiz (Spain): Occurrence of microplastics in municipal and industrial wastewaters

(2020) A.A. Franco et al.   Journal of Water Process Engineering

Microplastics and synthetic particles ingested by deep-sea amphipods in six of the deepest marine ecosystems on Earth

(2019) A. J. Jamieson et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Evaluation of existing methods to extract microplastics from bivalve tissue: Adapted KOH digestion protocol improves filtration at single-digit pore size

(2019) Christina J. Thiele et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics FTIR characterisation and distribution in the water column and digestive tracts of small pelagic fish in the Gulf of Lions

(2019) Charlotte Lefebvre et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal

(2019) Jing Sun et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Microplastic in wild populations of the omnivorous crab Carcinus aestuarii: A review and a regional-scale test of extraction methods, including microfibres

(2019) Stefania Piarulli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Bioavailability and toxicity of microplastics to fish species: A review

(2019) Wenfeng Wang et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

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(2018) Maria Cristina Fossi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Ingestion of microplastics and natural fibres in Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) and Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast

(2018) Montserrat Compa et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Synthetic microfibers in the marine environment: A review on their occurrence in seawater and sediments

(2018) J. Gago et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Low prevalence of microplastic contamination in planktivorous fish species from the southeast Pacific Ocean

(2018) Nicolas Ory et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Occurrence of microplastics in commercial fish from a natural estuarine environment

(2018) Filipa Bessa et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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

(2018) Ilka Peeken et al.   Nature Communications

Trace metal characterization and fluxes from the Guadiana, Tinto-Odiel and Guadalquivir estuaries to the Gulf of Cadiz

(2018) E. González-Ortegón et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The fate of microplastics in an Italian Wastewater Treatment Plant

(2018) Stefano Magni et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evidence of microplastic ingestion in the shark Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 in the continental shelf off the western Mediterranean Sea

(2017) Carme Alomar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in livers of European anchovies ( Engraulis encrasicolus , L.)

(2017) France Collard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Synthetic fibers as microplastics in the marine environment: A review from textile perspective with a focus on domestic washings

(2017) Flavia Salvador Cesa et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Amberstripe scad Decapterus muroadsi (Carangidae) fish ingest blue microplastics resembling their copepod prey along the coast of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the South Pacific subtropical gyre

(2017) Nicolas Christian Ory et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Export of microplastics from land to sea. A modelling approach

(2017) Max Siegfried et al.   WATER RESEARCH

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(2017) Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al.   Nature Communications

Microplastics in seafood: Benchmark protocol for their extraction and characterization

(2016) Alexandre Dehaut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Marine microplastic debris: a targeted plan for understanding and quantifying interactions with marine life

(2016) James R Clark et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?

(2016) Rachid Dris et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Ingestion of microplastics by demersal fish from the Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts

(2016) Juan Bellas et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastic fragments and microbeads in digestive tracts of planktivorous fish from urban coastal waters

(2016) Kosuke Tanaka et al.   Scientific Reports

Microplastics in commercial bivalves from China

(2015) Jiana Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

When Microplastic Is Not Plastic: The Ingestion of Artificial Cellulose Fibers by Macrofauna Living in Seagrass Macrophytodetritus

(2015) François Remy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

First observation on neustonic plastics in waters off NW Spain (spring 2013 and 2014)

(2015) Jesus Gago et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Ingestion of microplastics by commercial fish off the Portuguese coast

(2015) Diogo Neves et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in coastal and marine environments of the western tropical and sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean

(2015) Monica F. Costa et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption

(2014) Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Spatial Structure and Distribution of Small Pelagic Fish in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

(2014) Claire Saraux et al.   PLoS One

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(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Isolation of microplastics in biota-rich seawater samples and marine organisms

(2014) Matthew Cole et al.   Scientific Reports

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review

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

Plastic in North Sea Fish

(2013) Edwin M. Foekema et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel

(2012) A.L. Lusher et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks

(2011) Mark Anthony Browne et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastic ingestion by planktivorous fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre

(2010) Christiana M. Boerger et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN