Plastisphere

Quick meaning: Plastisphere is a noun meaning (ecology) The ecosystem on the surface of a piece of plastic (especially in a marine environment).

Meaning

(ecology) The ecosystem on the surface of a piece of plastic (especially in a marine environment).

Example Sentences

ut those interested in smaller critters have been given a whole, new sphere—the plastisphere—to study.

Freshwater and marine habitats share a number of features, but there are also differences between them that may affect the development and activities of plastisphere consortia.

(The Plastisphere is one of the many industrial-natural ecosystems that characterize the Anthropocene.) Cleaning ocean plastics, even if it were technologically possible on a scale that would make a difference, would disrupt and destroy the life we would be trying to save in the first place.

Word Forms

• plastispheres

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plasticulture, ecosphere, biospherics, piezosphere, cosphere, ecoplasticity.

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