在塑球中放大:水生生态生态系统中的植物浮游生物-塑料相互作用的生态界面
Veronica Nava1, Jaffer Y Dar2,3, Vanessa De Santis4
1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, Milan, 20126, Italy.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
|November 14, 2024
概括
塑料污染影响水生生态系统,影响植物浮游生物,这是食物网的基础. 本综述探讨了塑料如何与植物浮游生物相互作用,影响生态系统过程和生物多样性.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 生态毒理学 生态毒理学
- 水生生态学 水生生态学
背景情况:
- 植物浮游生物构成了水生食物网的基础,对生态系统的功能至关重要.
- 塑料污染,包括微塑料,对水生环境构成重大威胁.
- 塑料和浮游植物之间的相互作用是复杂的,涉及毒性和息地形成.
研究的目的:
- 审查和综合当前关于塑料和浮游植物/植物的相互作用的文献.
- 分析这些相互作用对基本水生生态系统过程的影响.
- 确定有关塑料污染对水生生物的影响的知识差距和不确定性.
主要方法:
- 对现有关于塑料与浮游植物相互作用研究的文献综述.
- 分析整个海洋和淡水生态系统的影响.
- 检查各种生物层面的影响,从亚细胞到生态系统.
主要成果:
- 塑料可以诱导植物浮游生物的有毒作用和形态/代谢变化.
- 植物浮游生物表现出适应性策略,如同质聚合和细胞外多糖生物合成,以应对塑料压力.
- 塑料可以作为有害藻类和入侵物种的基质,改变生物多样性.
- 相互作用可以通过改变的摄食过程,导致食物网的级联效应.
结论:
- 塑料和浮游植物之间的复杂相互作用显著影响水生生态系统.
- 关于这些相互作用改变生态变量的程度,目前仍存在不确定性.
- 需要进一步进行全面的研究,以充分了解和解决塑料污染带来的环境挑战.
关键词:
水生动物的食物网.它们是自食性动物.长期生长的生物体 长期生长的生物体有害的藻类藻类.巨大的塑料.代谢特征 代谢特征 代谢特征微藻生物多样性的生物多样性微塑料是微塑料中的一种.主要生产率的初级生产率.更多相关视频
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