Rethinking plastic as a habitat modifier and a transport vector for organisms in aquatic environments

Binda, Gilberto (author), Chandra, Sudeep (author), Costa, Margarida (author), Galgani, Luisa (author), Kalčíková, Gabriela (author), Leu, Eva (author), Loiselle, Steven Arthur (author), Nizzetto, Luca (author), Noble, Paula (author), Nava, Veronica (author), Parsons, Daniel Roy (author), Šupraha, Luka (author)

Plastic pollution is affecting freshwater and marine ecosystems. However, while increasing evidence highlights potential toxicological effects, broader ecosystem-level impacts remain largely overlooked. Recent findings suggest that plastic can undermine ecosystem functioning by altering fundamental fluxes of energy and matter at key interfaces within water environments. This view warrants urgent investigation, as rising plastic concentrations in aquatic ecosystems may disrupt their basic functioning, and current environmental concentrations in heavily polluted environments may already be altering ecosystem structure.

• Language: English
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.03 - Other scientific articles
• Organization: FKKT - Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 8 str.
• Numbering: Vol. , iss.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175429
• UDC: 502.51:504.5:678
• ISSN on article: 2378-2242
• DOI: 10.1002/lol2.70071
• COBISS.SI-ID: 254690307
• Publication date in RUL: 27.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Limnology and oceanography letters
• Shortened title: Limnol. oceanogr. lett.
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• ISSN: 2378-2242
• COBISS.SI-ID: 526456345

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: plastika, vodno okolje, okoljska tveganja