Evidence for microplastics contamination of the remote tributary of the Yenisei River, Siberia: the pilot study results

Yulia A. Frank; Danil S. Vorobiev; Olga A. Kayler; Egor D. Vorobiev; Ksenia S. Kulinicheva; Anton A. Trifonov; Tina Soliman Hunter

doi:10.3390/w13223248

Evidence for microplastics contamination of the remote tributary of the Yenisei River, Siberia: the pilot study results

Yulia A. Frank^*, Danil S. Vorobiev, Olga A. Kayler, Egor D. Vorobiev, Ksenia S. Kulinicheva, Anton A. Trifonov, Tina Soliman Hunter

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Abstract

This study is a pioneering attempt to count microplastics (MPs) in the Yenisei River system to clarify the role of Siberian Rivers in the transport of MPs to the Arctic Ocean. The average MPs content in the surface water of the Yenisei large tributary, the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, varied from 1.20 ± 0.70 to 4.53 ± 2.04 items/m³, tending to increase along the watercourse (p < 0.05). Concentrations of MPs in bottom sediments of the two rivers were 235 ± 83.0 to 543 ± 94.1 with no tendency of downstream increasing. Linear association (r = 0.952) between average organic matter content and average counts of MPs in bottom sediments occurred. Presumably MPs originated from the daily activities of the in-situ population. Further spatial-temporal studies are needed to estimate the riverine MPs fluxes into the Eurasian Arctic seas.

Original language	English
Article number	3248
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Water
Volume	13
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223248
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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Microplastics
Yenisei
Siberia
Siberian rivers
Microfibers
Surface water
Bottom sediments
Microplastics abundance

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Evidence for microplastics contamination of the remote tributary of the Yenisei River, Siberia: the pilot study results

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