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Marine macroinvertebrates inhabiting plastic litter in Peru
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021Marine litter, such as plastic bags, bottles, fabrics, or fishing gear, serve as a shelter for many marine organisms that are likely to colonize artificial substrata. Such assemblages can potentially turn marine litter into vectors of alien invasive species (AIS).
Enrique De-la-Torre, Gabriel +7 more
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Plastic litter colonization in a brackish water environment
Science of the Total EnvironmentTransitional waters, including coastal ponds, represent unique environments. These distinct ecosystems are often among the most severely polluted systems due to intensive human activities. Our study marks the first evaluation of aquatic invertebrates associated with plastic litter in two brackish ponds.
Bilal Mghili +2 more
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2018
Anthropogenic litter is found in marine environments from the beach, beach sediment and surface water to the seafloor. Plastic can persist and accumulate in the marine environment for a long period because of its light weight and degradation-resistant properties.
Li Wai Chin, Tse Hin Fung
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Anthropogenic litter is found in marine environments from the beach, beach sediment and surface water to the seafloor. Plastic can persist and accumulate in the marine environment for a long period because of its light weight and degradation-resistant properties.
Li Wai Chin, Tse Hin Fung
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IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020
The Plastic Litter Projects (PLP) are an innovative exploratory application of open-access satellite imagery and drone data for the remote detection of artificial floating marine plastic targets in natural waters. This paper presents the second PLP, conducted in the summer of 2019 within a two month period.
Topouzelis, Konstantinos +4 more
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The Plastic Litter Projects (PLP) are an innovative exploratory application of open-access satellite imagery and drone data for the remote detection of artificial floating marine plastic targets in natural waters. This paper presents the second PLP, conducted in the summer of 2019 within a two month period.
Topouzelis, Konstantinos +4 more
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Marine plastic litter: public perceptions and opinions in Italy
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021Understanding public perceptions, opinions and knowledge about marine plastic litter issue is a critical step in effectively engaging society and changing human behaviour in order to reduce litter inputs. The study performs a segmentation analysis that jointly considers opinions about sources and impacts of a sample of 605 Italians with a twofold ...
Forleo M. B., Romagnoli L.
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Plastic litter is rapidly bioeroded in mangrove forests
Marine Environmental ResearchDue to their architectural and hydrodynamic properties, mangrove forests are emerging as global hotspots for plastic sequestration. Mangroves encroached by coastal cities contain up to two orders of magnitude more plastic than their non-urban counterparts.
Levy D. Obonaga +3 more
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Smart algorithms for monitoring plastic litter
2020<p>Plastic Litter (PL) has become more ubiquitous in the last decades posing socio-economic as well as health problems for the blue and green economy. However, to date PL monitoring strategies have been based on field sampling by citizens and scientists during recreational, sporting, scientific and clean-up campaigns. To this end,
Shungu Garaba +2 more
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Ingestion of plastic litter by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi
Environmental Pollution, 2020Ingestion of anthropogenic litter has been well documented in marine vertebrates, but comparatively little is known about marine invertebrates. We report macrolitter ingestion by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi at Muizenberg beach in False Bay, South Africa.
Eleanor A. Weideman +4 more
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Hyperspectral characterization of marine plastic litters
2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), 2018The problem of marine plastic litters is the object of recent worldwide attention and is the object of current decisions of the European Union that require member states to act in a decisive way to improve monitoring and removal of marine plastic litters in the short term.
Balsi, Marco +2 more
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Plastic litter on an urban beach — a case study in Brazil
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 2009Beaches are subject to solid waste contamination at the strandline. Litter depositional dynamics is influenced by specific beach morphology and sources of solid wastes. The amount of items on the strandline of Boa Viagem beach (Recife, Brazil) was evaluated during dry and rainy seasons of 2005 to characterize their sources and depositional patterns ...
Jacqueline Santos, Silva-Cavalcanti +2 more
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