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Occurrence, air-seawater exchange, and ecological risk of pesticides in the southern Bohai Sea, China
Introduction: Pesticides are synthetic or naturally occurring chemical agents extensively employed in modern agriculture to eradicate or prevent pathogens, insect infestations, weeds, and other harmful organisms affecting crops and forest ecosystems,...
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Heavy metals bioaccumulation and its impact on fatty acids composition in
the benthic crustacean mud crab (Scylla paramamosain) and associated human health riskIntroduction: Over recent decades, accelerating industrial development and expanding human activities have emerged as major drivers of environ- mental degradation, with aquatic ecosystems among the most severely affected (A. K et al., 2023; Kabir et ...
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Multi-omics reveal the prevalence of Thaumarchaeota and their biogeochemical roles in coastal low oxygen zones
1、Introduction: Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a critical environmental factor in marine ecosystems, with its spatial heterogeneity and vertical stratification fundamentally establishing the biogeochemical zonation of redox boundaries (Wang et al., 2024). ...
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Hydrodynamic control on the interannual variability of algal bloom in the
Pearl River Estuary from 2021 to 2024: evidences from buoy data and hydrodynamic modeling1、Introduction: Ocean phytoplankton plays a vital role in global primary production and carbon cycling (Lu et al., 2025), and supports marine ecosystems and nutrient cycles, especially in coastal and estuarine waters (Breitburg et al., 2018). Underst...
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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 (...
