Review on the ecotoxicological impacts of plastic pollution on the freshwater invertebrate Daphnia.

ABSTRACT: The environmental impacts of plastic pollution have recently attracted universal attention, especially in the aquatic environment. However, research has mostly been focused on marine ecosystems, even though freshwater ecosystems are equally if not more polluted by plastics. In addition, the mechanism and extent to which plastic pollution affects aquatic biota and the rates of transfer to organisms through food webs eventually reaching humans are poorly understood, especially considering leaching hazardous chemicals. Several studies have demonstrated extreme toxicity in freshwater organisms such Daphnia. When such keystone species are affected by ambient pollution, entire food webs are destabilized and biodiversity is threatened. The unremitting increase in plastic contaminants in freshwate

SUBMITTER: Samadi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796382 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature