20.500.12556/RUL-145889 Beyond ingestion adhesion of microplastics to aquatic organisms The interactions of microplastics with aquatic organisms have been studied primarily using animal species, with dietary ingestion being the most important uptake route. However, recent research indicated that microplastics also interact with biota via bioadhesion. This process has been studied in aquatic macrophytes under laboratory conditions where microplastics adhered to their biomass, but monitoring studies also confirmed that microplastic bioadhesion occurs in other species and in the natural environment. Similarly, microplastics adhere to microorganisms, and in the aquatic environment they can be retained by ubiquitous biofilms. This can occur on a natural substrate such as sediment or rocks, but biofilms are also responsible for enhanced bioadhesion of microplastics to other biotic surfaces such as plant surfaces. Adhesion to these large biotic surfaces could influence the abundance and bioavailability of microplastics in the environment. Only few studies have been conducted on the bioadhesion of microplastics to animals, but their results confirmed that bioadhesion may be even greater than particle ingestion by some animals, such as corals or bivalves. However, the ecotoxicological effects are not yet fully understood and the possible transport of microplastics, e.g. adhered to fish or aquatic insects, also needs to be considered. In summary, bioadhesion seems to be an important process for the interactions of microplastics and biota. Neglecting bioadhesion in an environmental context may limit our understanding of the behavior, fate, and effects of microplastics in the aquatic environment. adsorption attachment aquatic ecosystems interactions plastic pollution mikroplastika vodni organizmi vodni ekosistemi onesnaževanje adsorpcija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-05-17 09:48:49 2023-05-17 09:48:49 2023-08-31 03:45:17 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 5 str. Vol. 258, art. 106480 May 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 502.51:504.5 0166-445X 10.1016/j.aquatox.2023.106480 145895683 1-s2.0-S0166445X23000838-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0166445X23000838-main.pdf 1 03BFCB5C62DA2FA0ACFE4C5FCAC13CC3 64e281f3a56d02b32f9e6d718271dffb871936bf01a4ea06bd968b3a9f5e4ce4 540ce516-f488-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=168957 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166445X23000838 1 00a6473b-f487-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=168956 Fakulteta za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo 0 0 0