Publication detail

Effects of microplastics to aquatic environment

PROCHÁZKOVÁ, P. ZLÁMALOVÁ GARGOŠOVÁ, H.

Original Title

Effects of microplastics to aquatic environment

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Plastics with their pervasive distribution are gradually becoming a global threat to the environment. Plastic items undergo slow degradation and fragmentation to smaller particles called microplastics. Microplastics can be defined as solid synthetic particles or polymer matrices with regular or irregular shape and with a size in the range of 1 µm to 5 mm. These particles are insoluble in water. The contamination of microplastic particles occurs across all ecosystems at different trophic levels. Microplastics may have direct ecotoxicological effects as well as vector effects through the adsorption of co-contaminants. These days, we deal with influence of PHB microparticles to aquatic organism Daphnia magna via acute and reproductive ecotoxicity tests.

Keywords

microplastics, PHB, ecotoxicity

Authors

PROCHÁZKOVÁ, P.; ZLÁMALOVÁ GARGOŠOVÁ, H.

Released

18. 2. 2021

Publisher

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences

Location

Ljubljana

ISBN

978-961-7112-02-3

Book

Socratic lectures: 4th International Minisymposium, Ljubljana, December 11.-12., 2020

Pages from

2

Pages to

6

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.zf.uni-lj.si/images/stories/datoteke/Zalozba/Sokratska_2021.pdf

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/204091

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT169673,
  author="Petra {Procházková} and Helena {Zlámalová Gargošová}",
  title="Effects of microplastics to aquatic environment",
  booktitle="Socratic lectures: 4th International Minisymposium, Ljubljana, December 11.-12., 2020",
  year="2021",
  pages="2--6",
  publisher="University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences",
  address="Ljubljana",
  isbn="978-961-7112-02-3",
  url="https://www.zf.uni-lj.si/images/stories/datoteke/Zalozba/Sokratska_2021.pdf"
}