Cristina Villanova Solano

Cristina Villanova Solano
Universidad de La Laguna | ULL · Department of Chemistry

Marine Biology
PhD Student on biodiversity and conservation of the marine environment.

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June 2019 - present
Universidad de La Laguna
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • Determination of microplastics in marine sediments of the Canary Islands
Education
September 2017 - June 2019
Universidad de La Laguna
Field of study
  • Máster en Biología Marina Biodiversidad y Conservación
September 2012 - June 2017
University of Alicante
Field of study
  • Ciencias del Mar

Publications

Publications (17)
Article
The quantification of plastic debris on beaches has been extensively used as an indicator of plastic pollution in the marine environment. However, most efforts have focused on surface layers, with few investigations looking deeper into the substrate, thus underestimating total standing stocks. Such information is crucial to improve our understandin...
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(1) Isolated systems, such as oceanic islands, are increasingly experiencing important problems related to microplastic debris on their beaches. The formation of microbial biofilm on the surface of microplastics present in marine environments provides potential facilities for microorganisms to survive under the biofilm. Moreover, microplastics act...
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Human activities have introduced high amounts of microplastics (MPs) into the atmosphere that can be transported long distances and be later deposited in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with precipitation (rain or snow). In this work, it has been assessed the presence of MPs in the snow of El Teide National Park (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain,...
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Microplastic pollution has an extremely widespread distribution, to the extent that microplastics could be ingested by aquatic organisms, including species of commercial importance for fisheries and aquaculture. In this work, the anthropogenic particles content of the gastrointestinal tracts of 86 individuals of cultivated European sea bass (Dicent...
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Oil residues have been frequently found on the coasts all over the world as a result of different accidental releases. Their partial evaporation and solidification onto the coastal rocks can produce the formation of a new solid structure forming an agglomerate with other materials, mainly microplastics (though wood, glass, sand and rocks were also...
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In this work, the microplastic content of sediments collected in July 2020 between 5 and 7 m depth was studied in four locations of La Palma island (Canary Islands, Spain). At each sampling location, three samples were taken parallel to the shoreline. The microplastic content in each sampling corer was studied every 2.5 cm depth after digestion wit...
Poster
Microplastics are widely recognised as contaminants of emerging concern. In the marine environment, seabed sediments have been identi�ed as a major sink with a high potential to accumulate them [1]. Among microplastic forms, micro�bres appear among the most frequently reported in the environmental compartment [2]. The aim of this study was to quant...

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