Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environments

New Threats and Challenges

Selvam Sekar, Senapathi Venkatramanan, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Prasanna Mohan Viswanathan, Selvam Sekar, Senapathi Venkatramanan, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Prasanna Mohan Viswanathan

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780323909808
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323909815
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environment: New Threat and Challenges in Marine Environment presents an interdisciplinary approach, offering key techniques and management of microplastic contamination in the disciplines of environmental science, fisheries, oceanography, geology, chemistry, biology and ocean science. Sections cover an overview of microplastic in the marine environment, deal with the origin, occurrences, distribution and various methodologies (for dealing with microplastics) available for microplastics, address the global case study of microplastic separation using recent techniques, and discuss the impact of microplastics on human health and the surrounding environment.This book is an important step in the field of microplastic pollution mitigation in environmental science as it offers a thorough accounting of the effects of pollutants on the environment, marine organisms, and the public health implications, as such it is relevant for aquatic ecologists, oceanographers, toxicologists, and marine biologists. - Includes a range of topics from meso- to microplastics, including weathering and fragmentation processes of microplastics - Presents data from source to sink, such as the occurrence and distribution of microplastics in freshwater bodies, coastal zones and the open ocean - Presents the impacts of microplastics on marine life as well as microplastics as vectors of biological and chemical contaminants - Provides important analysis on the solutions and next steps

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Meso- and microplastics in marine environments: An overview
• Chapter 2 : Microplastics in the Arabian/Persian Gulf marine environment: Abundance, characterization, ecotoxicological effect, and implications
• Chapter 3 : Plastic wastes: Source to sink
• Chapter 4 : Microplastics prevalence in marine and freshwater systems of Kerala, India
• Chapter 5 : Dynamics of microplastics in various environments: Occurrence, sources, and the impacts
• Chapter 6 : Microplastic abundance and exposure-related effects on corals, the foundation species of the marine ecosystem
• Chapter 7 : Extraction methodologies of microplastics in sargassum and associated ecological risks
• Chapter 8 : Assessment of microplastic pollution in the Vembar estuarine environment, Southeast coast of India
• Chapter 9 : Sources, abundance, and spatial distribution of marine debris pollution along beaches of Kanyakumari, southern India
• Chapter 10 : Microplastic pollution in marine sea fish
• Chapter 11 : Microplastic pollution in marine sea salts
• Chapter 12 : Ecological risk assessment of microplastic contamination in the Adyar River, Chennai: Distribution and source identification
• Chapter 13 : Human exposure to microplastics in saltpan and seawater: Risk assessment and ecotoxicological implications
• Chapter 14 : Adsorption of heavy metals on microplastics in marine environments
• Chapter 15 : Review of microplastics in groundwater: Sources, identification, and health effects
• Chapter 16 : Impacts of mesoplastics and microplastics on marine biodiversity
• Chapter 17 : Microplastic risks and potential threats to marine biodiversity and human beings
• Chapter 18 : Environmental impact induced by face mask wastes and sustainable solution to reduce this waste during the COVID 19 pandemic
• Chapter 19 : Reducing, recycling, and fundamentally rethinking microplastics
• Chapter 20 : Present advances in strategies to mitigate the microplastics contamination
• Index
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