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Uptake of microplastics by marine worms depends on feeding mode and particle shape but not exposure time
Porter, A.; Barber, D.; Hobbs, C.; Love, J.; Power, A.L.; Bakir, A.; Galloway, T.S.; Lewis, C. (2023). Uptake of microplastics by marine worms depends on feeding mode and particle shape but not exposure time. Sci. Total Environ. 857: 159287. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159287
In: Science of the Total Environment. Elsevier: Amsterdam. ISSN 0048-9697; e-ISSN 1879-1026, meer
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Bioaccessibility; Filter feeding; Deposit feeding; Ingestion; Biological traits |
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- Porter, A.
- Barber, D.
- Hobbs, C.
- Love, J.
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- Power, A.L.
- Bakir, A.
- Galloway, T.S.
- Lewis, C.
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| Abstract |
The uptake of microplastics into marine species has been widely documented across trophic levels. Feeding mode is suggested as playing an important role in determining different contamination loads across species, but this theory is poorly supported with empirical evidence. Here we use the two distinct feeding modes of the benthic polychaete, Hediste diversicolor (The Harbour Ragworm) (O.F. Müller, 1776), to test the hypothesis that filter feeding will lead to a greater uptake of microplastic particles than deposit feeding. Worms were exposed to both polyamide microfragments and microfibres in either water (as filter feeders) or sediment (as deposit feeders) for 1 week. No effect of exposure time was found between 1 day and 1 week (p > 0.19) but feeding mode was found to significantly affect the number of microfibres recovered from each worm (p < 0.001). When exposed to microfibers, filter feeding worms took up ≈15,000 % more fibres than deposit feeding worms (p < 0.001), whereas when feeding on microfragments there was no difference between feeding modes. Our data demonstrate that both feeding mode and particle characteristics significantly influence the uptake of microplastics by H. diversicolor. Using imaging flow cytometry, filter feeders were found to take up a broader size range of particles, with significantly more smaller and larger particles than deposit feeders (p < 0.05), commensurate with the range of plastics isolated from the guts of ragworms recovered from the environment. These results demonstrate that biological traits are useful in understanding the uptake of plastics into marine worms and warrant further exploration as a tool for understanding the bioaccessibility of plastics to marine organisms. |
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