潮间带
生态系统
环境科学
生物群
贻贝
水生生态系统
塑料污染
生态学
海洋生态系统
中观
颗粒
污染
海洋学
生物
地质学
作者
Gerardo I. Zardi,Katy R. Nicastro,Stéphanie Truong,Philippe Decorse,Sophie Nozak,Alexandre Chevillot‐Biraud,P. W. Froneman,Fleurine Akoueson,Guillaume Duflos,Laurent Seuront
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169816
摘要
Self-organized spatial patterns are increasingly recognized for their contribution to ecosystem functioning. They can improve the ecosystem's ability to respond to perturbation and thus increase its resilience to environmental stress. Plastic pollution has now emerged as major threat to aquatic and terrestrial biota. Under laboratory conditions, we tested whether plastic leachates from pellets collected in the intertidal can impair small-scale, spatial self-organization and byssal threads production of intertidal mussels and whether the effect varied depending on where the pellets come from. Specifically, leachates originating from plastic pellets collected from relatively pristine and polluted areas respectively impaired and inhibited the ability of mussels to self-organize at small-scale and to produce byssal threads compared to control conditions (i.e., seawater without leaching solution). Limitations to natural self-organizing processes and threads formation may translate to a declined capacity of natural ecosystems to avoid tipping points and to a reduced restoration success of disturbed ecosystems.
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