Wang Limin, Nabi Ghulam, Yin Liyun, Wang Yanqin, Li Shuxin, Hao Zhuang, Li Dongming
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024 China.
Avian Res. 2021;12(1):59. doi: 10.1186/s40657-021-00293-2. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
Plastic waste and debris have caused substantial environmental pollution globally in the past decades, and they have been accumulated in hundreds of terrestrial and aquatic avian species. Birds are susceptible and vulnerable to external environments; therefore, they could be used to estimate the negative effects of environmental pollution. In this review, we summarize the effects of macroplastics, microplastics, and plastic-derived additives and plastic-absorbed chemicals on birds. First, macroplastics and microplastics accumulate in different tissues of various aquatic and terrestrial birds, suggesting that birds could suffer from the macroplastics and microplastics-associated contaminants in the aquatic and terrestrial environments. Second, the detrimental effects of macroplastics and microplastics, and their derived additives and absorbed chemicals on the individual survival, growth and development, reproductive output, and physiology, are summarized in different birds, as well as the known toxicological mechanisms of plastics in laboratory model mammals. Finally, we identify that human commensal birds, long-life-span birds, and model bird species could be utilized to different research objectives to evaluate plastic pollution burden and toxicological effects of chronic plastic exposure.
在过去几十年里，塑料垃圾和碎片在全球范围内造成了严重的环境污染，并且已经在数百种陆生和水生鸟类物种中积累。鸟类对外部环境敏感且脆弱；因此，它们可用于评估环境污染的负面影响。在本综述中，我们总结了大塑料、微塑料、塑料衍生添加剂和塑料吸附化学物质对鸟类的影响。首先，大塑料和微塑料在各种水生和陆生鸟类的不同组织中积累，这表明鸟类可能会受到水生和陆生环境中与大塑料和微塑料相关的污染物的影响。其次，总结了大塑料和微塑料及其衍生添加剂和吸附化学物质对不同鸟类个体生存、生长发育、繁殖产出和生理的有害影响，以及塑料在实验室模型哺乳动物中的已知毒理学机制。最后，我们确定人类共生鸟类、长寿鸟类和模型鸟类物种可用于不同的研究目的，以评估塑料污染负担和长期塑料暴露的毒理学影响。
