A recent study shows that that the potentially toxin-producing plankton species Pfiesteria piscicida prefers to colonize plastic particles, where they are found in 50 times higher densities than in the surrounding water of the Baltic Sea and densities about two to three times higher than on comparable wood particles floating in the water.
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2K1Abz9
via IFTTT
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Microorganisms on microplastics
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment