Results 51 to 60 of about 8,485 (229)
Marine Litter and Grading of the Coastal Areas of Ambon Bay, Indonesia
Omni-Akuatika, 2021 The coastal is frequently impacted by marine litter that damages marine wildlife and causes economic loss to fishing and maritime industries. In this study, we described the quantity of marine litter in the inner and outer of Ambon Bay.
Corry Yanti Manullang +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Enhancing Millennial Awareness Towards Marine Litter Through Environmental Education [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 One of the influencing factors is the community behavior which reflected public practices in littering. Children are social capital for the community and the essential agents of social change.
Kusumawati Ika +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Marine litter, future prospects for research [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015 As far back as 1870, i.e., about 150 years ago, Jules Verne described the accumulation of debris in the convergence zone of the North Atlantic Ocean in his famous novel entitled “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.” Many scientific reports have addressed this topic since and our main concern today is the ever increasing volume of marine litter ...
openaire +3 more sources
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 +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Seafloor Litter in the Sinop İnceburun Coast in the Southern Black Sea
International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2017 In this study, abundance, distribution and type of seafloor litter were determined in the Sinop Inceburun coast which is the northeast point of Turkey.
Ayşah Öztekin, Levent Bat
doaj +1 more source
Mangrove forests as traps for marine litter
Environmental Pollution, 2019 To verify weather mangroves act as sinks for marine litter, we surveyed through visual census 20 forests along the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, both in inhabited and remote locations. Anthropogenic debris items were counted and classified along transects, and the influence of main drivers of distribution were considered (i.e.
Cecilia Martin +2 more
openaire +3 more sources
Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
wiley +1 more source
A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
wiley +1 more source
When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2021 Marine debris has contributed considerably to marine pollution and it is one of the global trends for the environmental issue. Marine litter causes impacts to biota, economic impacts, to fishing and to the aesthetics of beaches, which demonstrates the ...
Cristiane Rosa, Walter Martin Widmer
doaj +1 more source