Microplastics in the Mediterranean marine environment: a combined bibliometric and systematic analysis to identify current trends and challenges

Papadimitriu, Marija; Allinson, Graeme

doi:10.1186/s43591-022-00026-2

Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Table 8 A summary of the number of MP items found in fish around the western Mediterranean basin

From: Microplastics in the Mediterranean marine environment: a combined bibliometric and systematic analysis to identify current trends and challenges

Country	Location	Area	Name	Mean	Freq *^a	Reference
				MPs/animal	(%)
France	French coastal waters	Northwestern Mediterranean	Boops boops	1.77 ± 0.22	47	Tsangaris et al. [144]
France	Gulf of Lion	Northwestern Mediterranean	Sardina pilchardus	0.20 ± 0.69^a	12	Lefebvre et al. [100]
France	Gulf of Lion	Northwestern Mediterranean	Engraulis encrasicolus	0.11 ± 0.31^a	11	Lefebvre et al. [100]
France	Gulf of Lion	Northwestern Mediterranean	Engraulis encrasicolus	1.13	80	Collard et al. [50]
Italy	Anzio	Tyrrhenian sea	Scomber colias, Merluccius merluccius, Trigla lyra	2.73	66	Bianchi et al. [22]
Italy	Sicily	Southern Tyrrhenian Sea	Mullus barbatus, Trigla lyra, Galeus melastomus, Scyliorhinus canicular, Raja miraletus	1.72	17	Capillo et al. [34]
Italy	Sicily	Southern Tyrrhenian Sea	Sardina pilchardus	0.53^a		Savoca et al. [132]
Italy	Sicily	Southern Tyrrhenian Sea	Engraulis encrasicolus	0.26^a		Savoca et al. [132]
Italy	Latium, Sardinia and Liguria	Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Sea	Boops boops	1.8 ± 0.2	56	Sbrana et al. [133]
Italy	Sicily	Southern Tyrrhenian Sea	Coryphaena hippurus	3.9	65	Schirinzi et al. [134]
Italy	Liguria	Northwestern Mediterranean	Boops boops	1.85 ± 0.15	47	Tsangaris et al. [144]
Italy	Lazio	Tyrrhenian Sea	Boops boops	3.97 ± 0.23	81	Tsangaris et al. [144]
Italy	South Sardinia	Tyrrhenian Sea	Boops boops	1.46 ± 0.24	13	Tsangaris et al. [144]
Italy	Sicily	Tyrrhenian Sea	Lepidopus caudatus	4.8	78	Bottari et al. [26]
Italy	Sicily	Tyrrhenian Sea	Zeus faber	2.1^a	51	Bottari et al. [26]
Italy	Leghorn, Taranto and Ortona	North Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea	Mullus barbatus	1.08	20	Giani et al. [78]
Italy	Leghorn, Taranto and Ortona	North Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea	Merluccius merluccius	1.38	27	Giani et al. [78]
Italy	Sicily	Tyrrhenian Sea	Merluccius merluccius	1	46	Mancuso and Bottari [105]
Italy	Rasocolmo Cape and Termini Imerese	Tyrrhenian Sea	Pagellus spp.		9	Savoca et al. [131]
Country	Location	Area	Name	Mean	Frequency	Reference
				MPs/animal	(%)
Italy		Tyrrhenian Sea	Galeus melastomus	4.47 ± 1.10	78	Valente et al. [148]
Italy		Tyrrhenian Sea	Scyliorhinus canicula	2.50 ± 0.52	67	Valente et al. [148]
Italy		Tyrrhenian Sea	Etmopterus spinax	1.18 ± 0.26	62	Valente et al. [148]
Italy	Giglio Island	Tyrrhenian Sea	Scorpaena sp., Uranoscopus scaber, Phycis phycis, Spondyliosoma cantharus	2.47 ± 2.0	77	Avio et al. [11]
Italy	Giglio Island	Tyrrhenian Sea	41 fish types	4.0 ± 1.83	95	Avio et al. [11]
Italy	Strait of Messina	Central Mediterranean Sea	Trachinotus ovatus		24	Battaglia et al. [16]
Italy	Strait of Sicily	Central Mediterranean Sea	Myctophidae	1	3	Romeo et al. [126]
Italy	Aeolian Islands	Tyrrhenian Sea	Xiphias gladius, Thunnus thynnus and Thunnus alalunga	1.32	18	Romeo et al. [125]
Spain	Iberian coast	Alboran Sea	Engraulis encrasicolus	1.92 ± 0.95	87	Filgueiras et al. [71]
Spain	Iberian coast	Alboran Sea	Sardina pilchardus	1.77 ± 1.42	87	Filgueiras et al. [71]
Spain	Iberian coast	Alboran Sea	Callionymus lyra	2.53 ± 1.88	79	Filgueiras et al. [71]
Spain	Iberian coast	Alboran Sea	Mullus surmuletus	1.56 ± 0.53	60	Filgueiras et al. [71]
Spain	Central region of the Spanish coast	Western Mediterranean	Boops boops	1.74 ± 0.14	53	Tsangaris et al. [144]
Spain	Northern coast of Catalonia	Balearic sea	Boops boops	1.96 ± 0.20	46	Tsangaris et al. [144]
Spain	Alicante	Balearic Sea	Sardina pilchardus	1–2	58	Pennino et al. [117]
Spain	Mallorca Island	Balearic Sea	Galeus melastomus	0.34 ± 0.07^a	16	Alomar & Deudero [3]
Spain	Catalan coast	Balearic Sea	Boops boops	1.42–2.59	46	Garcia-Garin et al. [76]
Spain	Iberian Peninsula coast	Balearic and Alboran sea	Trachurus mediterraneus	1.13 ± 1.99^a	43	Rios-Fuster et al. [123]
Spain	Balearic Islands	Balearic Sea	Engraulis encrasicolus	0.03 ± 0.16^a	3	Rios-Fuster et al. [123]
Spain	Spanish coast	Alboran and Balearic Sea	Sardina pilchardus	0.21 ± 0.23^a	15	Compa et al. [53]
Spain	Spanish coast	Alboran and Balearic Sea	Engraulis encrasicolus	0.18 ± 0.20^a	14	Compa et al. [53]
Spain	Mallorca Island	Balearic Sea	Mullus surmuletus	0.42 ± 0.04^a	27	Alomar et al. [4]
Spain	Barcelona, Cartagena, Málaga, Ciutadella and Mahon	Alboran and Balearic Sea	Mullus barbatus	1.9 ± 1.29	19	Bellas et al. [18]
Spain	Balearic Islands	Balearic Sea	Boops boops	3.75 ± 0.25	58	Nadal et al. [111]

^a, calculated from Author figures/data; Frequency, % of species that ingested MPs out of all sampled species

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