Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems
Guangjing Qian,
Lai Zhang,
Yuxin Chen
et al.
Abstract:Microplastics can be ingested by a wide range of aquatic animals. Extensive studies have demonstrated that microplastic ingestion—albeit often not lethal—can affect a range of species life‐history traits. However, it remains unclear how the sublethal effects of microplastics on individual levels scale up to influence ecosystem‐level dynamics through cascading trophic interactions.
Here we employ a well‐studied, empirically fed three‐species trophic chain model, which was parameterized to mimic a common type o… Show more
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