Publications by authors named "Zhaoqin Liang"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates the toxicity of tire wear particles (TWPs) to a soil species called Enchytraeus crypticus under varying soil moisture and temperature conditions, finding that TWPs are more toxic than typical plastics like polypropylene (PP).
- - Results indicated that TWPs negatively affected worm growth, survival, and reproduction, while also altering the microbiota in both the soil and the worms' guts, with certain additives playing a significant role in these changes.
- - Increased soil moisture and temperature were found to worsen the toxicity of TWPs, highlighting the environmental impacts of additives and providing new insights into how these conditions affect soil health.
Aging in soil increases the disturbance of microplastics to the gut microbiota of soil fauna.
J Hazard Mater
January 2024
Microplastics (MPs) in the soil environment inevitably experience aging processes. However, how aging in soil affects MP toxicity to soil fauna remains poorly understood. In this study, two types of widely distributed MPs (polypropylene and tire wear particles) were aged in different soils, and their surface properties, morphology, leaching features of additives, biofilm colonization and toxicity to the typical soil fauna Enchytraeus crypticus were investigated.
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