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DOI	10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110880
	Microplastics in Kuwait marine environment: Results of first survey
	Saeed T.; Al-Jandal N.; Al-Mutairi A.; Taqi H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0025326X
卷号	152
英文摘要	Microplastic pollution status in Kuwait coastal areas was assessed A total of 44 intertidal locations were sampled for beach sediment. Short trawls (40) were conducted. In addition, 87 fish and mussels gastrointestinal contents were examined. Microplastics were characterized by Raman spectroscopy. Contrary to the expectation very few microplastic particles were found. Only 37 MPs were detected in beach sediments at 15 locations. Seawater trawls indicated that MPs were low in the numbers. MPs were found in just two samples from Kuwait Bay and also in two samples from the southern areas. In biota, only 3 pieces of plastics were recovered from gastrointestinal tracks of hamour fish. The identified MPs were dominantly polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene. It appeared that the microplastic levels in sediment, water and biota were much lower compared to published values from adjoining areas, however, were comparable to the absolute numbers of particles from Qatar and Oman. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Coastal water; Marine biota; Marine plastics; Sediments
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Beaches; Elastomers; Fish; Fisheries; Polypropylenes; Sediments; Absolute number; Beach sediments; Coastal waters; Marine biota; Marine environment; Marine plastics; Microplastic particles; Microplastics; Microplastic; microplastic; polyethylene; polypropylene; polystyrene; sea water; plastic; bioaccumulation; coastal sediment; coastal water; coastal zone; fish; intertidal environment; marine environment; marine pollution; plastic waste; pollution monitoring; sediment pollution; Article; biota; chemical analysis; coastal waters; fish; gastrointestinal content; Kuwait; mussel; nonhuman; Oman; Qatar; Raman spectrometry; sea pollution; seashore; sediment; animal; environmental monitoring; questionnaire; water pollutant; Kuwait Bay; Kuwait [Middle East]; Animals; Environmental Monitoring; Geologic Sediments; Kuwait; Microplastics; Oman; Plastics; Qatar; Surveys and Questionnaires; Water Pollutants, Chemical
来源期刊	Marine Pollution Bulletin
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/149207
作者单位	Environmental Pollution and Climate Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P. O. Box 24885, Safat, 13109, Kuwait
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Saeed T.,Al-Jandal N.,Al-Mutairi A.,et al. Microplastics in Kuwait marine environment: Results of first survey[J],2020,152.
APA	Saeed T.,Al-Jandal N.,Al-Mutairi A.,&Taqi H..(2020).Microplastics in Kuwait marine environment: Results of first survey.Marine Pollution Bulletin,152.
MLA	Saeed T.,et al."Microplastics in Kuwait marine environment: Results of first survey".Marine Pollution Bulletin 152(2020).