Negative food dilution and positive biofilm carrier effects of microplastic ingestion by D. magna cause tipping points at the population level
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Ingestion of microplastics by aquatic organisms is often harmful due to the dilution of their regular food with low-calorie microplastic particles, but can also be beneficial if nutritious biofilms are present on the microplastic surface. This begs the question: is ingestion of microplastic harmful or beneficial and can the net effect of the two mechanisms be quantified? Here, we quantified these harmful and beneficial effects on Daphnia magna, using dose-response tests with clean and biofouled microplastic respectively, and determined the trade-off between these counteracting effects. A population model was developed to calculate the isoclines for zero population growth, separating the regime where adverse food dilution dominated from that where the beneficial biofilm vector mechanism dominated. Our results show that the organisms grew better when exposed to biofouled microplastic compared to pristine microplastic. Very good model predictions (R2 = 0.868–0.991) of the effects of biofouled microplastic were obtained based on literature parameter values, with optimization required only for the two sub-model parameters driving the dose-effect relationships for pristine microplastic. These results contradict previous sudies were only pristine microplastic were used and demonstrate that the ruling paradigm of unambiguously adverse microplastic effects is not ecologically justifiable.
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Microplastics have the potential to cause negative physical effects (e.g., food dilution in Daphnia magna) and chemical effects (e.g., plastic additives reduce ecophysiological function in Arenicola marina).
“Concerns surrounding the direct harm of consuming microplastics arises owing to the potential for microplastics to cause negative physical effects (e.g., food dilution in Daphnia magna)62 and chemical effects (e.g., plastic additives reduce ecophysiological function in Arenicola marina).63,64”
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- Authors
- Amariei, G., Rosal, R., Fernández-Piñas, F., & Koelmans, A. A.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Koelmans, Albert A.
- Venue
- Environmental Pollution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 294
- Pages
- 118622
- ISSN
- 0269-7491 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4200405944
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 10
- FWCI
- 2.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Pollution (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e_Buah (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Hispana (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Comunidad de Madrid (S2018/EMT-4341)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (13940)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CTM2016-74927-C2-1/2-R, CTM2016, CTM2016-74927-C2-1, S2018/EMT-4341)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Keywords
- microplastics, Daphnia magna, biofilm, microplastic ingestion, population dynamics, tipping points, dose-response relationship, population models, aquatic invertebrates
- MeSH terms
- Microplastics, Animals, Daphnia, Eating, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Biofilms
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