Chemical analysis
; Sediments
; Average concentration
; Baltic sea
; Extraction efficiencies
; Gdansk Bay
; Internal standards
; Laboratory methods
; Microplastic particles
; Microplastics
; Quality control
; microplastic
; plastic
; unclassified drug
; plastic
; sea water
; water pollutant
; concentration (composition)
; marine sediment
; plastic waste
; quantitative analysis
; sediment pollution
; Article
; Baltic Sea
; concentration (parameters)
; controlled study
; extraction
; quality control
; quantitative analysis
; sea pollution
; sediment
; analysis
; chemistry
; ecology
; environmental monitoring
; procedures
; Russian Federation
; sea
; water pollutant
; Atlantic Ocean
; Baltic Sea
; Gulf of Gdansk
; Ecology
; Environmental Monitoring
; Geologic Sediments
; Oceans and Seas
; Plastics
; Russia
; Seawater
; Water Pollutants, Chemical
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Microplastics in the marine environment are known as a global ecological problem but there are still no standardized analysis procedures for their quantification. The first breakthrough in this direction was the NOAA Laboratory Methods for quantifying synthetic particles in water and sediments, but fibers numbers have been found to be underestimated with this approach. We propose modifications for these methods that will allow us to analyze microplastics in bottom sediments, including small fibers. Addition of an internal standard to sediment samples and occasional empty runs are advised for analysis quality control. The microplastics extraction efficiency using the proposed modifications is 92���7%. Distribution of microplastics in bottom sediments of the Russian part of the Baltic Sea is presented. Microplastic particles were found in all of the samples with an average concentration of 34���10 items/kg DW and have the same order of magnitude as neighbor studies reported. � 2016 Elsevier Ltd
Atlantic Branch of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect Mira, 1, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
Recommended Citation:
Zobkov M.,Esiukova E.. Microplastics in Baltic bottom sediments: Quantification procedures and first results[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,114(2)