IMP Project Articles

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Journal articles resulting from this project:

• Mateos-Cárdenas, A. et al. (2019) Polyethylene microplastics adhere to Lemna minor (L.), yet have no effects on plant growth or feeding by Gammarus duebeni (Lillj.), Sci. Total Environ. 689: 413-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.359 
• Mateos-Cárdenas, A., O’Halloran, J., van Pelt, F.N.A.M. et al. Rapid fragmentation of microplastics by the freshwater amphipod Gammarus duebeni (Lillj.). Sci Rep 10, 12799 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69635-2 open access
• Alicia Mateos-Cárdenas, John O’Halloran, Frank N.A.M. van Pelt, Marcel A.K. Jansen (2021) Beyond plastic microbeads – Short-term feeding of cellulose and polyester microfibers to the freshwater amphipod Gammarus duebeni, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 753, 2021, 141859, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141859 open access

The following media articles have been published with input from the IMP project:

• Microplastics: tiny crustaceans can fragment them into even smaller nanoplastics – Alicia Mateos Cárdenas in The Conversation (31 July 2020)

• Small crustacean can fragment microplastics in four days, study finds – Anna Turns for The Guardian (30 July 2020)
• Microplastics widespread in our environment, warns UCC Professor – posted by Daniel Farrell in Coast Monkey (14 February 2019)
• Wipe out wipes: The needless destruction of our oceans by the beauty industry – Carolyn Moore for the Irish Examiner (4 August 2017)
• Beyond the Ocean: How Microplastics are Polluting the Freshwater Environment” – Alicia Mateos Cardenas in New Nature magazine, issue 8, page 14 (August 2017)