Acronym PLASTOX
Category
Fisheries
Title Direct and indirect ecotxicological impacts of microplastic on marine organisms Programme JPI Ocean
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source Other Coordinator Andrew Booth Coordinator email Andy.Booth@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
SINTEF - SINTEF (Norway)
Institutions involved
AMU-MIO - Aix-Marseille University; Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (France) ,
NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (Portugal) ,
BSH - Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Germany) ,
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium) ,
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) ,
NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway) ,
NA - Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway) ,
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) ,
IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Sweden) ,
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) ,
UPV/EHU - Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea) (Spain) ,
UNIBO - University of Bologna (Italy) ,
WUR-IMARES - Wageningen University and Research; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2018 Funding (€) € NA Website https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/plastox/ Summary The PLASTOX project will investigate the ingestion, food-web transfer, and ecotoxicological impact of microplastics, together with persistent organic pollutants (POPs), metals and plastic additive chemicals associated with them, on key European marine species and ecosystems. It will also study the temporal dynamics of microplastics colonisation by microbial communities in the field and the influence of microbial biofilms on ingestion rates and POP toxicity. The influence of microplastics physicochemical properties (size, shape, surface area and composition) on these processes will be evaluated. PLASTOX will combine field-based observations, laboratory tests, mesocosm and manipulative field experiments to study the ecological effects of microplastics.
Keywords
Impacts;
Toxic substances;
Algae;
Microplastics;
Zooplankton;
Shellfish;
Food web;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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