Relative prevalence of microplastics on mangrove crabs and soil in targeted crab harvesting sites in Luzon

• Main Authors: Imperial, Antonio Miguel C., Martinez, Michaella M., Tan, Jehan Ginette O.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: Microplastics; Scylla (Crustacea); Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_bio/61
• Institution: De La Salle University

Excessive use of plastics in the Philippines, combined with poor solid waste management has led to an amassing of microplastics in various habitats, with a major victim being mangrove forests. These microplastics pose a threat to the organisms that live within it as it can obstruct the day to day pr...