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Plastic in the Aquatic Environment: Interactions with Microorganisms

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Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 111))

Abstract

Plastic debris is gradually filling the seas, oceans, and freshwater bodies of the planet. Since the 1950s, a huge amount of plastic has entered into various bodies of water. All these objects decompose at different rates, and aquatic organisms take part in these processes. This book chapter provides an overview of studies carried out in recent decades on the interaction between microorganisms and plastic debris in the aquatic environment. Both prokaryotic communities and algo-bacterial cenoses are considered. A separate section is devoted to the research results of the authors of this book chapter, obtained in the natural environment, contaminated with plastic, and in field experiments in the sea.

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This work was supported by RFBR Grant 18-44-920012/18 and RFBR Grant 19-55-80004. The work was performed at User Facilities Center of M.V. Lomonosow Moscow State University under financial support of Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. The authors express their deep gratitude for the translation of the text to the agency “Lingvohaus” and personally to Anna Zheleznyak – an extra-class translator.

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    Philipp Sapozhnikov

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    Alexander M. Korsunsky & Eugene Statnik

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Sapozhnikov, P. et al. (2021). Plastic in the Aquatic Environment: Interactions with Microorganisms. In: Stock, F., Reifferscheid, G., Brennholt, N., Kostianaia, E. (eds) Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2021_747

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