微塑料
环境科学
流域
航程(航空)
空间生态学
自然(考古学)
空间分布
水文学(农业)
塑料污染
地理
生态学
地质学
遥感
海洋学
地图学
材料科学
岩土工程
考古
复合材料
生物
作者
David Mennekes,Bernd Nowack
标识
DOI:10.1038/s44221-023-00090-9
摘要
Abstract Microplastics are a ubiquitous contaminant of natural waters, and a lot of field monitoring is currently performed. However, what is missing so far is a general understanding how emissions of microplastics are linked to environmental exposure, especially on larger geographic scales such as countries. Here we coupled a high-resolution microplastic release model with a fate model in rivers and lakes and parameterized it for Switzerland on a country scale to predict masses of microplastics in each river section for seven different polymers. The results show that catchment characteristics, for example, distribution of releases within the catchment, location and size of lakes or river connections, are as important as polymer properties such as density. There is no simple linear function of microplastic retention within a catchment in dependency of river length to the outlet. Instead, we found that different catchments cover a wide range of retained fractions for microplastics. Consequently, we argue that the availability and use of spatially distributed release data and performing modelling on high spatial resolution is of importance when estimating concentrations of microplastics in large areas such as countries.
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