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A Combination of Machine Learning Algorithms for Marine Plastic Litter Detection Exploiting Hyperspectral PRISMA Data

Remote Sensing, 2022
A significant amount of the produced solid waste reaching the oceans is made of plastics. The amount of plastic debris in the ocean and coastal areas is steadily increasing and is now a major global environmental issue.
Nicolò Taggio, Antonello Aiello, Giulio Ceriola, Maria Kremezi, Viktoria Kristollari, Polychronis Kolokoussis, Vassilia Karathanassi, Enrico Barbone   +7 more
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Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Artificial Floating Plastic Targets with Sentinel-2 and Unmanned Aerial Systems (Plastic Litter Project 2019)

Remote Sensing, 2020
Remote sensing is a promising tool for the detection of floating marine plastics offering extensive area coverage and frequent observations. While floating plastics are reported in high concentrations in many places around the globe, no referencing ...
Konstantinos Topouzelis, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Alexandros Karagaitanakis, Apostolos Papakonstantinou, Manuel Arias Ballesteros   +4 more
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Global distribution and cleanup opportunities for macro ocean litter: a quarter century of accumulation dynamics under windage effects

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Ocean litter is of growing global concern, and its impacts on marine environments and ecosystems are expected to increase further this century. From a management perspective, natural drifting of macro ocean litter to or near the coast may have a ...
Chia-Ying Ko, Yi-Chia Hsin, Ming-Shiou Jeng   +2 more
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Overview of the marine litter status in the Atlantic Area: floating litter

, 2021
CleanAtlantic is an INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme project that aimed at protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Atlantic Area by improving capabilities to monitor, prevent and remove (macro) marine litter. Besides, the project also contributed to raise awareness and change attitudes among stakeholders and to improve marine litter ...
Gago, J. (Jesús), González-Nuevo, G. (Gonzalo), Soliño, L (Lucía), Pérez, P. (Patricia), Le-Moigne, M (Morgan), Brun, M (Melanie), Galgani, F (François)   +6 more
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Environmental DNA from plastic and textile marine litter detects exotic and nuisance species nearby ports.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Marine debris is currently a significant source of environmental and economic problems. Floating litter can be employed by marine organisms as a surface to attach to and use as spreading vector. Human activities are promoting the expansion of potentially
Aitor Ibabe, Fernando Rayón, Jose Luis Martinez, Eva Garcia-Vazquez   +3 more
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Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Karl Leo, Hans Kleemann   +3 more
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Method and System for Detecting and Recognizing Floating Garbage Moving Targets on Water Surface with Big Data Based on Blockchain Technology

Advances in Multimedia, 2022
At present, the methods for cleaning up floating objects in small water areas such as campus artificial lakes and community sightseeing artificial lakes are mainly to use traditional tools such as hand-held nets to remove them.
Weihuang Yang, Rongxia Wang, Lvsheng Li
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T2T Genome Assembly and Multi‐Omics Data Reveal Terrestrial Adaptation and Mucus Biosynthesis in Tropical Leatherleaf Slug (Laevicaulis alte)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A gap‐free genome assembly and multi‐omics comparison of the terrestrial slug Laevichaulis alte with an aquatic relative reveal that expansion of the VEGF family orchestrates mucus production, lipid metabolism, and immune defense—highlighting key molecular innovations for conquering life on land.
Gang Wang, Shaofang He, Zhongkai Wang, Aobo Pang, Xiaoli Sun, Rongchen Liu, Fang Wang, Sisi Chen, Zhijuan Bian, Dongcheng Wei, Liuhan Wu, Siyao Zhao, Qiuting Ji, Yiqi Sun, Niying Sun, Yushinta Fujaya, Boping Tang, Kianann Tan, Daizhen Zhang, Lianfu Chen   +19 more
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High Tree Species Diversity Promotes Thermal Enhancement Response of Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting soil carbon dynamics under warming is constrained by limited understanding of microbial thermal adaptation, particularly whether microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) can adapt to warming and how plant diversity modulates this response. Using soils from a natural tree species diversity gradient in a subtropical forest, we combined a
Pengpeng Duan, Changqing Ye, Xinyi Yang, Chaoqun Wang, Wolfgang Wanek, Jian‐sheng Ye, Hongzhao Yuan, Hu Du, Kongcao Xiao, Xunyang He, Kelin Wang, Dejun Li   +11 more
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Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The impact of plastic pollution on ecosystems and marine fauna is well documented, although research into its effects on waders (also known as shorebirds) remains limited. Given that waders are exposed to coastal marine litter, this exposure could be a significant factor in the decline of their populations. This study aims to assess the global
Yada Trapletti‐Lanti, Mónica Expósito‐Granados, Elizabeth Znidersic, Marga L. Rivas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source