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Microplastics in the foreshore coastal waters, sediment, and coastal fauna of a highly populated megacity-A study on the effect of anthropogenic discharge on clams.
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Microplastics in the foreshore coastal waters, sediment, and coastal fauna of a highly populated megacity-A study on the effect of anthropogenic discharge on clams.
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Microplastics Sediment Clams Coastal water Polymer
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In this study, the microplastics (MPs) abundance, characteristics and their variations across three popular bea- ches of highly populated and largest megacity of India were documented using clams as an indicator species. The abundance of MPs in clams was 77.39 MPs items/g in soft tissue parts and 198.82 items/individual, while in coastal waters and sediments the abundance was 537.5 ± 95 items/L and 10,568.3 ± 3053.3 items/kg respec- tively. The observed higher microplastic diversity integrated (MDII) indicates numerous sources contributing to microplastics pollution and higher microplastic index (MPI) indicates greater bioavailability of MPs to clams. The bulk of the microplastics recovered from clams (55.78 %), coastal sediments (52.27 %) and coastal sea waters (54 %) belong to the Not Available |
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2023-05-16T02:58:14Z
2023-05-16T02:58:14Z 2022-10-12 |
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English
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Elsevier
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