Microplastics in a tropical Andean Glacier: A transportation process across the Amazon basin?

Microplastic (MPs) contamination is ubiquitous in most terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Recently MPs have been reported at high altitudes which indicates that air masses can transport and deposit MPs in the surface snow of high mountain ecosystems, however, whether MPs typification and abundance...

• Glavni avtor: Cabrera, Marcela (author)
• Drugi avtorji: Massaine Moulatlet, Gabriel (author), Maisincho, Luis (author), Rodríguez Barroso, Rocío (author), Albendíne, Gemma (author), Sakali, Ayda (author), Lucas Solis, Oscar Enrique (author), Conicelli, Bruno (author), Vellosa Capparelli, Mariana (author), Valencia, Bryan G. (author)
• Format: article
• Izdano: 2022
• Teme: Surface snow deposition; Atmospheric transport; Contaminants; Antisana; Ecuador; Isotopes; Wind direction
• Online dostop: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150334.; http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/475