GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Glob Chang Biol. 2022 May;28(9):2843-2845. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16129. Epub 2022 Feb 27.
Writing in this issue of Global Change Biology, Shiye Zhao and co-authors report a microplastic soup extending thousands of meters below the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. This discovery contributes two pieces to the missing plastic puzzle- (1) nets have been under-sampling the smallest microplastic size fraction, which is actually not missing when using high-volume filtration, and (2) small microplastics in particular find their way below the surface. But their results also contribute several new questions, because some of what they found is quite surprising. This article is a Research Article on Zhao et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16089.
本期《全球变化生物学》中，赵世烨及其同事报告了在南大西洋亚热带环流数千米以下发现的微塑料汤。这一发现为塑料缺失之谜增添了两个部分——（1）网具对最小的微塑料粒径抽样不足，而使用大容量过滤时实际上并未缺失最小粒径的微塑料；（2）小的微塑料尤其能找到进入深海的途径。但他们的结果也提出了几个新问题，因为他们的一些发现相当令人惊讶。本文是对赵世烨等人的研究论文的介绍，https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16089。
