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SUBMITTER: Martin C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin C C Baalkhuyur F F Valluzzi L L Saderne V V Cusack M M Almahasheer H H Krishnakumar P K PK Rabaoui L L Qurban M A MA Arias-Ortiz A A Masqué P P Duarte C M CM
Science advances 20201028 44
Sequestration of plastics in sediments is considered the ultimate sink of marine plastic pollution that would justify unexpectedly low loads found in surface waters. Here, we demonstrate that mangroves, generally supporting high sediment accretion rates, efficiently sequester plastics in their sediments. To this end, we extracted microplastics from dated sediment cores of the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf mangrove (<i>Avicennia marina</i>) forests along the Saudi Arabian coast. We found that micropla ...[more]