Microplastic pollution of lakeshore sediments from remote lakes in Tibet plateau, China

Microplastic pollution of lakeshore sediments from remote lakes in Tibet plateau, China

Tibetan Plateau is known as the world’s third pole, which is characterized by a low population density with very limited human activities. Tibetan Plateau possesses the greatest numbers of high-altitude inland lakes in the world. However, no information is currently available on the characteristic o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environmental pollution (1987) 2016-12, Vol.219, p.450-455
Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Kai, Su, Jing, Xiong, Xiong, Wu, Xiang, Wu, Chenxi, Liu, Jiantong
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Distribution
Environmental Monitoring
Geologic Sediments - analysis
Identification
Lakes - chemistry
Lakeshore sediment
Microplastics
Northern Tibet
Plastics - analysis
Surface texture
Tibet
Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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Zusammenfassung:Tibetan Plateau is known as the world’s third pole, which is characterized by a low population density with very limited human activities. Tibetan Plateau possesses the greatest numbers of high-altitude inland lakes in the world. However, no information is currently available on the characteristic of microplastic pollution in those lakes within this remote area. In this work, lakeshore sediments from four lakes within the Siling Co basin in northern Tibet were sampled and examined for microplastics (
ISSN:0269-7491
1873-6424
DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.05.048