2023
Kangas, A., Setälä, O., Kauppi, L., Lehtiniemi, M. 2023. Trophic transfer increases the exposure to microplastics in littoral predators. Marine Pollution Bulletin 196: 115553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115553 (open access)
2022
Eronen-Rasimus, E., Näkki, P., Kaartokallio H. 2022. Degradation rates and bacterial community compositions vary among commonly used bioplastic materials in a brackish marine environment. Environmental Science & Technology 56(22): 15760–15769. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c06280 (open access)
Setälä, O., Tirroniemi, J., Lehtiniemi, M. 2022. Testing citizen science as a tool for monitoring surface water microplastics. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194(12): 851. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10487-w (open access)
Seppänen, E., Lappalainen, A., Setälä, O. 2022. Fishing and fish farming as sources of plastic litter and microplastics – a case study from Finland. Boreal Environment Research 27: 161–170. http://www.borenv.net/BER/archive/pdfs/ber27/ber27-161-170.pdf (open access)
Kruglova, A., Muñoz-Palazón, B., Gonzalez-Martinez, A., Mikola, A., Vahala, R., Talvitie, J. 2022. The dangerous transporters: A study of microplastic-associated bacteria passing through municipal wastewater treatment. Environmental Pollution 314: 120316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120316 (open access)
2021
Lehtiniemi, M., Hartikainen, S., Turja, R., Lehtonen, K.K., Vepsäläinen, J., Peräniemi, S., Leskinen, J., Setälä, O. 2021. Exposure to leachates from post-consumer plastic and recycled rubber causes stress responses and mortality in a copepod Limnocalanus macrurus. Marine Pollution Bulletin 173, Part B: 113103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113103 (open access)
Uurasjärvi, E., Sainio, E., Setälä, O., Lehtiniemi, M., Koistinen, A. 2021. Validation of an imaging FTIR spectroscopic method for analyzing microplastics ingestion by Finnish lake fish (Perca fluviatilis and Coregonus albula). Environmental Pollution 288: 117780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117780 (open access)
Sainio, E., Lehtiniemi, M., Setälä, O. 2021. Microplastic ingestion by small coastal fish in the northern Baltic Sea, Finland. Marine Pollution Bulletin: 112814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112814 (open access)
Coppock, R.L., Lindeque, P.K., Cole, M., Galloway, T.S., Näkki, P., Birgani, H., Richards, S., Queirós, A.M. 2021. Benthic fauna contribute to microplastic sequestration in coastal sediments. Journal of Hazardous Materials: 125583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125583 (open access)
Asamoah, B.O., Salmi, P., Räty, J., Ryymin, K., Talvitie, J., Karjalainen A.K., Kukkonen, J.V.K., Roussey, M., Peiponen, K-E. 2021. Optical monitoring of microplastics filtrated from wastewater sludge and suspended in ethanol. Polymers 13(6): 871. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13060871 (open access)
Näkki, P., Eronen-Rasimus, E., Kaartokallio, H., Kankaanpää, H., Setälä, O., Vahtera, E., Lehtiniemi, M. 2021. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon sorption and bacterial community composition of biodegradable and conventional plastics incubated in coastal sediments. Science of the Total Environment: 143088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143088 (open access)
Canals, M., Pham, C.K., Bergmann, M., Gutow, L., Hanke, G., van Sebille, E., Angiolillo, M., Buhl-Mortensen, L., Cau, A., Ioakeimidis, C., Kammann, U., Lundsten, L., Papatheodorou, G., Purser, A., Sanchez-Vidal, A., Schulz, M., Vinci, M., Chiba, S., Galgani, F., Langenkämper, D., Möller, T., Nattkemper, T.W., Ruiz, M., Suikkanen, S., Woodall, L., Fakiris, E., Molina Jack, M.E., Giorgetti, A. 2021. The quest for seafloor macrolitter: A critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects. Environmental Research Letters 16: 023001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc6d4 (open access)
Salmi, P., Ryymin, K., Karjalainen, A.K., Mikola, A., Uurasjärvi, E., Talvitie, J. 2021. Particle balance and return loops for microplastics in a tertiary-level wastewater treatment plant. Water Science and Technology 84(1): 89–100. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2021.209 (open access)
2020
Uurasjärvi, E., Pääkkönen, M., Setälä, O., Koistinen, A., Lehtiniemi, M. 2020. Microplastics accumulate to thin layers in the stratified Baltic Sea. Environmental Pollution 268 (Part A): 115700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115700 (open access)
Uurasjärvi, E., Hartikainen, S., Setälä, O., Lehtiniemi, M., Koistinen, A. 2020. Microplastic concentrations, size distribution, and polymer types in the surface waters of a northern European lake. Water Environment Research 92(1): 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1229 (open access)
2019
Näkki, P., Setälä, O., Lehtiniemi M. 2019. Seafloor sediments as microplastic sinks in the northern Baltic Sea – negligible upward transport of buried microplastics by bioturbation. Environmental Pollution 249, 74–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.02.099 (open access)
2018
Lehtiniemi, M., Hartikainen, S., Näkki, P., Engström-Öst, J., Koistinen, A., Setälä, O. 2018. Size matters more than shape: Ingestion of primary and secondary microplastics by small predators. Food Webs 17, e00097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2018.e00097 (open access)
Railo, S., Talvitie, J., Setälä, O., Koistinen, A., Lehtiniemi, M. 2018. Application of an enzyme digestion method reveals microlitter in Mytilus trossulus at a wastewater discharge area. Marine Pollution Bulletin 130, 206–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.03.022
Budimir, S., Setälä, O., Lehtiniemi, M. 2018. Effective and easy to use extraction method shows low numbers of microplastics in offshore planktivorous fish from the northern Baltic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 127, 586–592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.054
2017
Talvitie, J., Mikola, A., Koistinen, A., Setälä, O. 2017. Solutions to microplastic pollution – Removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent with advanced wastewater treatment technologies. Water Research 123, 401–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.07.005
Näkki, P., Setälä, O., Lehtiniemi, M. 2017. Bioturbation transports secondary microplastics to deeper layers in soft marine sediments of the northern Baltic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 119, 255–261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.03.065
Talvitie, J., Mikola, A., Setälä, O., Heinonen, M., Koistinen, A. 2017. How well is microlitter purified from wastewater? – A detailed study on the stepwise removal of microlitter in a tertiary level wastewater treatment plant. Water Research 109, 164–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2016.11.046
2016
Setälä, O., Norkko, J., Lehtiniemi, M. 2016. Feeding type affects microplastic ingestion in a coastal invertebrate community. Marine Pollution Bulletin 102, 95–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.11.053
Setälä, O., Magnusson, K., Lehtiniemi, M., Norén, F. 2016. Distribution and abundance of surface water microlitter in the Baltic Sea: A comparison of two sampling methods. Marine Pollution Bulletin 110, 177–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.065
2015
Talvitie, J., Heinonen, M., Pääkkönen, J.-P., Vahtera, E., Mikola, A., Setälä, O., Vahala, R. 2015. Do wastewater treatment plants act as a potential point source of microplastics? Preliminary study in the coastal Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. Water Science & Technology 72, 1495–1504. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2015.360
2014
Setälä, O., Fleming-Lehtinen, V., Lehtiniemi, M. 2014. Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web. Environmental Pollution 185, 77–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.10.013