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Biodegradation and disintegration of expanded polystyrene by sphaeromatid isopods Sphaeroma via their gut bacteria
1、Introduction： Plastics, synthetic polymers derived from petroleum, consist of long polymeric chains and are widely used in building insulation, industrial materials, and packaging (Ali et al., 2021; Lv et al., 2024). The global annual plastic produ...
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Co-occurrence of microplastics and heavy metals in sediments of the
Lanzhou section of the Yellow River: Distribution characterizations and comprehensive ecological risk assessment1、Introduction： The global plastic waste crisis has emerged as a paramount envi- ronmental challenge, with improperly managed plastics constituting the largest fraction of anthropogenic waste (Liu et al., 2018). As the world's largest producer and co...
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Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of PAHs in the Yellow River Estuary
food web: A fugacity-based model for ecological and human health risk assessment1、Introduction： Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) composed of two or more fused benzene rings and are characterized by their high toxicity, mutagenicity, and carci- nogenicity. These compounds...
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Assessing algal blooms in Taihu Lake using hourly data: Seasonal
characteristics and the relationship with environmental factors1、Introduction： Algal bloom is one of the indicators of water eutrophication (Smetacek and Zingone, 2013; Cao and Han, 2021). It has become an important problem for many coastal areas and inland water in China (Zhang et al., 2020a, 2020b; Yang et al....
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A three-dimensional marine plastic litter real-time detection embedded system based on deep learning☆
Introduction： With the improvement of human living standards, the plastic in- dustry has become one of the world’s largest manufacturing industries (Liu et al., 2023), and plastic litter has proliferated in the world. Due to both natural processes an...
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Effects of electromagnetic radiation from offshore wind power on the physiology and behavior of two marine fishes
1、Introduction： Offshore wind power is one of the most established/developed power generation methods in the field of renewable energy technology, and it has very positive significance in solving the energy crisis and adjusting the energy structure (...
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Warming coupled with elevated pCO2 modulates microplastic inhibition in a commercial red alga Pyropia haitanensis
1、Introduction： Plastics have become ubiquitous in modern society due to their ease of manufacture, low cost, and versatility (Geyer et al., 2017). Among the most widely used polymers are polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride ...
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Assessment of benthic ecological quality status of small estuaries using multiple biotic indices in East China Sea
1、Introduction： Estuaries are transitional environments between rivers and oceans, characterized by openness, ecological vulnerability, and high sensitivity to disturbances (Huang et al., 2024). With the progress of industriali- zation and urbanizati...
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Spatiotemporal variability, partitioning and mixing behavior of dissolved
and particulate phosphorus in a typical subtropical river-estuary-bay continuumaccounting for 75–94 % (Benitez-Nelson, 2000). Refractory P from riverine sources is primarily removed from the oceanic P cycle through burial in coastal sediments (Goll et al., 2023), while reactive P is mainly taken up by algae and then lost from t...
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A deep learning-based method for marine oil spill detection and its application in UAV imagery☆
stability (Dong et al., 2022; Zhou et al., 2018; Taleghani and Tyagi, 2017; Fingas, 2016). Oil dispersion in marine environments not only leads to large-scale surface slicks, which inhibit photosynthesis and reduce dissolved oxygen levels, but also c...
