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Assessment of marine litter on Morocco’s Mediterranean beaches [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesMarine litter pollution is one of the world’s major environmental challenges. In the Mediterranean, marine litter on beaches is mainly generated by tourism and recreational activities.
Abid Abdeslam +9 more
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Automatic Detection of Marine Litter: A General Framework to Leverage Synthetic Data
Remote Sensing, 2022 The spatial and temporal coverage of spaceborne optical imaging systems are well suited for automated marine litter monitoring. However, developing machine learning-based detection and identification algorithms requires large amounts of data.
Manon Nagy +4 more
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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
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe threat of anthropogenic marine litter, particularly plastic pollution, to marine ecosystems and human health, has spurred mitigation initiatives and global scientific research.
Radoslava Bekova, Bogdan Prodanov
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Coastal regions are biologically active areas with significant ecological and socioeconomic values. These regions are increasingly being affected by marine litter.
Kaire Torn +3 more
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Synergistic and Trade‐Off Effects of Plant Communities on Slope Runoff and Sediment Yield
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Plant community functional structure plays an important role in regulating slope runoff and sediment yield on the Loess Plateau. Based on runoff plot monitoring and vegetation surveys in the Yangjuangou catchment, we used partial least squares regression (PLSR) and variable importance in projection (VIP) analysis to assess the effects of ...
Menghan Wu, Jian Hou, Qingsheng Zhong
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Automatization of multistep sample preparation for microplastics monitoring in aquatic environments
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.Abstract Microplastics (MP) have been found in every environmental compartment in urban and remote areas. Although their ubiquity is widely recognized, the lack of harmonized protocols for sampling, sample preparation, and particle identification/quantification hinders comparability among studies.
Markus Sillanpää +3 more
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Chapter An integrated approach for marine litter hot spots identification
, 2022 Marine litter is defined as any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, and it is among the most important environmental problems which are affecting the sea nowadays.
Miniussi, Stefano +4 more
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Fragmentation Behaviour of Plastic Litter in the Marine Environment
, 2022 The marine environment is polluted by plastics of all forms and sizes. To reduce this serious pollution, it is important to identify its sources. This work focuses on the me-chanically induced breakdown of plastic into smaller fragments as a source of secondary microplastic, the time scale in which these microplastics are formed as well as the influ ...
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Warming and predation drive rapid evolution of ecosystem functioning but not functional traits
Oikos, EarlyView.Global environmental change can rapidly reshape phenotypic trait distributions through adaptive and neutral processes. Yet, disentangling their relative contributions remains a major challenge, particularly for traits underpinning ecosystem functioning.
Laure Olazcuaga +8 more
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