Sublethal effects of microplastics sourced from polypropylene agricultural plastics on four soil invertebrate species

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F25%3A00142445" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/25:00142445 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425031668?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425031668?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140247" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140247</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sublethal effects of microplastics sourced from polypropylene agricultural plastics on four soil invertebrate species

Original language description

The increasing use of agricultural plastics (APs) and resulting accumulation of microplastics (MPs) in soils potentially affects soil organisms. This study assessed the effects of polypropylene MPs derived from commonly used black ribbon and white fleece mulching fabrics on four soil invertebrates. Animals were exposed to MP concentrations of 0.005 % - 5 % in Lufa 2.2 soil to assess effects on survival, reproduction (Enchytraeus crypticus, Folsomia candida) and behavior (Eisenia andrei, Porcellio scaber). Both MP types dose-relatedly decreased soil bulk density, and increased soil water holding capacity at high concentrations. The MPs from white fleece mulching fabric also increased soil pH at all concentrations tested. Reproduction was affected more by MPs from black ribbon fabric than from white fleece mulching fabric, significantly affecting enchytraeids at 1 % and 5 %, and at 5 %, respectively, and springtails only at 5 % for the black ribbon fabric MPs. Earthworms avoided soil at 5 % of the first or 0.5 % and 5 % of the second MP type. Isopods seemed attracted, but also showed different walking behavior at 5 % of black ribbon fabric MPs. MPs derived from commonly used APs were shown to affect soil properties at low concentrations and the reproduction and behavior of soil invertebrates.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004605" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004605: Natural and anthropogenic georisks</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Hazardous Materials

ISSN

0304-3894

e-ISSN

1873-3336

Volume of the periodical

499

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

001608044200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105020080559