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Microplastic residues in wetland ecosystems: Do they truly threaten the plant-microbe-soil system?
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Highlights Bacopa showed that bet-hedging strategies may serve to prevent the direct and indirect effects of microplastics in the soil. Morphological characteristics and chlorophyll b content were significantly decreased. Microplastics activate plant antioxidant defence system. Microplastics affect the physical and chemical properties, microbial community structure and function of soil systems.
Abstract The ecological stress of microplastic contamination to ecosystem functioning and biota raises concerns worldwide, but the impacts of microplastics on wetland ecosystems (e.g., plants, microbes, and soil) have not been fully elucidated. In this study, we used a controlled pot experiment to determine the effects of different types (PS, PVC, PP and PE) of microplastics on the growth performance of wetland plants, soil chemical properties, enzyme systems and microbial communities. Microplastics can change the germination strategies of seeds, and there was also a reduction in fresh weight and plant height in Bacopa sp. Chlorophyll b synthesiswas significantly reduced in mixed microplastic treatments compared with controls. Microplastic addition in soil caused higher concentrations of reactive oxygen species in plants, which led to increased lipid peroxidation and activation of the antioxidant defence system. The organic matter, potassium, total nitrogen and phosphorus changed significantly in the presence of the four forms of microplastics, while soil pH was not substantially affected. Microplastics had a negative effect on soil enzyme activity, for example, PS MP particles significantly decreased sucrase activities in the soil after 40 days. The results of this study showed that microplastic addition decreased the richness and diversity of bacterial. When soil was exposed to polystyrene microplastics, the richness and diversity of algae significantly increased on the soil surface. Thus, microplastics can alters the structure of soil microbial communities, resulting in the enrichment of some special soil microbial taxa involved in nitrogen cycling. These results indicate both the direct and indirect effects of plastic residues on the plant-microbe-soil system, which has implications for potential further impacts on wetland ecosystem functioning.
Microplastic residues in wetland ecosystems: Do they truly threaten the plant-microbe-soil system?
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Highlights Bacopa showed that bet-hedging strategies may serve to prevent the direct and indirect effects of microplastics in the soil. Morphological characteristics and chlorophyll b content were significantly decreased. Microplastics activate plant antioxidant defence system. Microplastics affect the physical and chemical properties, microbial community structure and function of soil systems.
Abstract The ecological stress of microplastic contamination to ecosystem functioning and biota raises concerns worldwide, but the impacts of microplastics on wetland ecosystems (e.g., plants, microbes, and soil) have not been fully elucidated. In this study, we used a controlled pot experiment to determine the effects of different types (PS, PVC, PP and PE) of microplastics on the growth performance of wetland plants, soil chemical properties, enzyme systems and microbial communities. Microplastics can change the germination strategies of seeds, and there was also a reduction in fresh weight and plant height in Bacopa sp. Chlorophyll b synthesiswas significantly reduced in mixed microplastic treatments compared with controls. Microplastic addition in soil caused higher concentrations of reactive oxygen species in plants, which led to increased lipid peroxidation and activation of the antioxidant defence system. The organic matter, potassium, total nitrogen and phosphorus changed significantly in the presence of the four forms of microplastics, while soil pH was not substantially affected. Microplastics had a negative effect on soil enzyme activity, for example, PS MP particles significantly decreased sucrase activities in the soil after 40 days. The results of this study showed that microplastic addition decreased the richness and diversity of bacterial. When soil was exposed to polystyrene microplastics, the richness and diversity of algae significantly increased on the soil surface. Thus, microplastics can alters the structure of soil microbial communities, resulting in the enrichment of some special soil microbial taxa involved in nitrogen cycling. These results indicate both the direct and indirect effects of plastic residues on the plant-microbe-soil system, which has implications for potential further impacts on wetland ecosystem functioning.
Microplastic residues in wetland ecosystems: Do they truly threaten the plant-microbe-soil system?
Yu, Hongwei (author) / Qi, Weixiao (author) / Cao, Xiaofeng (author) / Hu, Jingwen (author) / Li, Yang (author) / Peng, Jianfeng (author) / Hu, Chengzhi (author) / Qu, Jiuhui (author)
2021-06-08
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English
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