The effects of land use types on microplastics in river water: A case study on the mainstream of the Wei River, China.

ABSTRACT: Microplastics are widely found in rivers and their sediments, which will cause harm to the water ecological environment. The Wei River is a first-class tributary of the Yellow River, the fifth largest river in the world, and has vulnerable ecological environment and most sediment in the world. However, understanding how anthropogenic activities and environmental factors affect the microplastics distribution in this river is not clear. Based on this, the spatiotemporal distribution of microplastics in the Wei River were investigated. The abundance of microplastics ranged from 1033 to 8333 items/m³ and from 120 to 840 items/kg in the water and in the sediment, respectively. Fibers and fragments were the main shapes of Wei River, microplastics less than 500 μm were the main sizes,

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10920460 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature