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The Ecotoxicology of Plastic Marine Debris
The American Biology Teacher, 2011 The accumulation of plastic in the oceans is an ever-growing environmental concern. Plastic debris is a choking and entanglement hazard for wildlife; plastics also leach toxic compounds into organisms and ecosystems. Educating students about the marine debris problem introduces fundamental concepts in toxicology, ecology, and oceanography.
Susanne M. Brander +8 more
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Global distribution of potential impact hotspots for marine plastic debris entanglement [PDF]
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Marine animals have been known to interact with and become entangled in plastic debris for decades. Despite increasing annual input volumes of plastic waste to the natural environment and the threat this constitutes to marine biodiversity, impacts of ...
Marthe A. Høiberg +2 more
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Bacterial Candidates for Colonization and Degradation of Marine Plastic Debris [PDF]
Environmental Science & Technology, 2019 With the rising plastic pollution in the oceans, research on the plastisphere-the microorganisms interacting with marine plastic debris-has emerged. Microbial communities colonizing plastic have been characterized from several ocean regions and they are distinct from the communities of the surrounding waters, and a few plastic-degrading microorganisms ...
Line Roager, Eva C. Sonnenschein
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Surfing and dining on the “plastisphere”: Microbial life on plastic marine debris
Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2017 Plastic marine debris represents a global threat for the marine environment, having serious consequences for the ocean, the wildlife and the human health.
Grazia Marina Quero, Gian Marco Luna
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Understanding the Fragmentation Pattern of Marine Plastic Debris [PDF]
Environmental Science & Technology, 2016 The global estimation of microplastic afloat in the ocean is only approximately 1% of annual global plastic inputs. This reflects fundamental knowledge gaps in the transformation, fragmentation, and fates of microplastics in the ocean. In order to better understand microplastic fragmentation we proceeded to a thorough physicochemical characterization ...
ter Halle, Alexandra +8 more
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Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization [PDF]
Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 Plastics become rapidly colonized by microbes when released into marine environments. This microbial community-the Plastisphere-has recently sparked a multitude of scientific inquiries and generated a breadth of knowledge, which we bring together in this review.
Robyn J. Wright +4 more
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Recycling of Marine Plastic Debris
, 2021 Although marine debris has been accumulating for many decades, only during the last three the accumulation of millions of waste tons at seas and oceans has generated interest and concern of scientists and governments. While marine debris may present different origins and nature, polymers lead in abundance.
Peña Rodríguez, Cristina +5 more
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Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment: History and Future Challenges [PDF]
Global Challenges, 2020 AbstractThe success of plastic as a material has shaped the development of modern society and challenged older materials in many of their established uses. However, plastic is now a major component of litter and is extensively reported within the marine environment.
Imogen Ellen Napper, Richard C. Thompson
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Mapping marine debris encountered by albatrosses tracked over oceanic waters
Scientific Reports, 2021 Anthropogenic marine debris is a threat to marine organisms. Understanding how this debris spatially distributes at sea and may become associated with marine wildlife are key steps to tackle this current issue.
Bungo Nishizawa +7 more
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Large-scale detection of marine debris in coastal areas with Sentinel-2
iScience, 2023 Summary: Detecting and quantifying marine pollution and macroplastics is an increasingly pressing ecological issue that directly impacts ecology and human health.
Marc Rußwurm +2 more
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