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The increasing microplastics (MPs) pollution in freshwater wetlands has received global concerns. To investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of MPs in the wetlands of Poyang Lake, surface water and sediment samples were collected from five rivers entering the lake as well as the confluence of Poyang Lake into the Yangtze River, in both dry and wet seasons. The MPs in water and sediment were extracted by the digestion-filtration method and flotation-separation-digestion-filtration method, respectively. Light microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscope were used for microplastic characterization. The results showed that the abundance of MPs ranged from 32.1 to 127.3 n·L淡水湿地中日益严重的微塑料(MPs)污染已引起全球关注。为了解鄱阳湖典型湿地微塑料的时空动态特征,相继于丰水期和枯水期采集鄱阳湖流域五河入湖段和鄱阳湖汇入长江出湖段的水体和沉积物样品,分别采用消解抽滤法和浮选分离-消解抽滤法分离水体和沉积物中的微塑料,采用显微镜、傅里叶变换红外光谱仪和扫描电镜鉴定分析微塑料表征。结果表明: 鄱阳湖各区域丰水期水体和沉积物微塑料丰度范围分别为32.1～127.3 n·L

As a new type of pollutant, microplastics have attracted increasing attention. Microplastics in aquatic ecosystems are accumulating at an unprecedented scale, causing significant environmental and economic impacts. In this study, sediments and different types of microplastic samples were collected from the

Microplastic pollution (plastics with particle sizes5 mm) has become a serious problem. In this study, we sampled the surface water, sediment, and bird excrement from the shore, center of the lake, and active areas for birds in Baisha Lake, which is key habitat for migratory birds in the Poyang Lake wetlands. The microplastics were separated by flotation separation, and then, we analyzed the pollution characteristics of this area. The main results were as follows. ① There were significant differences in the abundance of microplastics in water and sediment at different sampling points in the study area. The average abundance of microplastics in water and sediment were 263.28 per·m

Overlying water, sediments, surface soils in the typical wetland areas of Lean River and Poyang Lake which were rich in non-ferrous metal mineral resources on both sides of the river, were chosen for monitoring heavy metals including copper, lead and cadmium of base flow in average season, flood season, and dry season in 2012. Statistical analysis methods were coupled to characterize the spatiotemporal variation of heavy metals pollution and identify the main sources. The results indicated that the concentrations of copper were the highest in all samples of each sampling sites in the Lean River-Poyang Lake wetland. And the content values of copper, lead and cadmium in different samples of different sampling sites also showed that the content values of copper were higher than those of lead, and the content values of lead were also higher than those of cadmium. The results also showed that the heavy metals pollution of copper, lead and cadmium in flood season was the heaviest whereas the heavy metals pollution in dry season was comparatively light. The results of the contents of the three kinds of heavy metals elements in different sampling sites of the watersheds of lean River showed that the contents of copper in the samples from the upstream sampling sites of Lean River were higher than those of other samples from other sites. And the contents of lead in the samples from the downstream sampling sites of Lean River were higher than those of other samples from other sampling sites. The contents of cadmium in the samples from the midstream sampling sites of Lean River were higher than those of other samples from other sites. The first principal component representing copper pollution explained 36. 99% of the total variance of water quality. The second principal component concerning representing lead pollution explained 30. 12% of the total variance. The correlation analysis results showed that there were significant positive correlations among the contents of copper in sediments and the contents of copper in overlying water. And there was also significant positive correlation between the contents of copper in sediments and the contents of copper in the surface soils. And the correlation analysis showed that there were significant positive correlations among the contents of cadmium in sediments and the contents of cadmium in surface soils. The above results reflected that the copper pollution or cadmium sources of water, soil and sediments were consistent, which were mainly from heavy metal acidic waste of mining emissions. The correlations between other components were not very obvious, which reflected the sources of pollutants were different.