Journal
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 176-182Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.03.021
Keywords
Microplastics; Mangrove sediment; WEOM/L-WEOM; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91428203, 41673105, 41473118]
- Guangxi Ba-Gui Fellowship [2014A010]
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Microplastics sorption of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) was the core processes that cause negative effects to biota, and their influencing factors and related mechanisms are poorly understood. In this study, we explored the impacts of water extractable organic matter (WEOM), an important source of endogenous dissolved organic matter in mangrove sediment, on the sorption coefficients of typical parent, alkyl and N/O/S-containing poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by microplastics. The presence of L-WEOM (D) impeded the PAHs sorption as the coefficients (K-f) decreased to 10.17 (mu g/kg)/(mu g/L)(n) and to 8.39 (mu g/kg)/(mu g/L)(n) for fluorene (Flu) and 1-methyl-fluorene (1-M-Flu), respectively. The K-f exhibited good linear relationships with the aliphaticity of L-WEOM (p < 0.05) rather than the aromatic carbon/alkyl carbon content (p > 0.05). Under the presences of L-WEOM (D), (S) and (K), the lone pair electrons of N/O/S-containing PAHs was the dominant factor contributing to the obvious difference of the K-f values from the other groups. Moreover, the largest impact of L-WEOM (D) on the Flu sorption was in the case of PVC microplastics, while almost no effect was in the case of PS microplastics. The findings of our work may be helpful in improving our understanding of the role of WEOM on the sorption of PAHs to microplastics in the field mangrove sediment.
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