Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

PG Ryan, CJ Moore… - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Plastic debris has significant environmental and economic impacts in marine systems.
Monitoring is crucial to assess the efficacy of measures implemented to reduce the …

Occurrence, degradation, and effect of polymer-based materials in the environment

S Lambert, C Sinclair, A Boxall - Reviews of Environmental Contamination …, 2013 - Springer
At a global scale, increasing human population and associated economic growth has lead to
an increase in the demand for consumable goods such as those made from polymer-based …

Microplastic's story

C Schmid, L Cozzarini, E Zambello - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of microplastic pollution is now the order of the day in front of everyone's eyes
affecting the environment and the health of leaving creature. This work aims to retrace the …

Anthropogenic marine debris in the coastal environment: a multi-year comparison between coastal waters and local shores

M Thiel, IA Hinojosa, L Miranda, JF Pantoja… - Marine pollution …, 2013 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic marine debris (AMD) is frequently studied on sandy beaches and
occasionally in coastal waters, but links between these two environments have rarely been …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of microplastics on sessile invertebrates in the eastern coast of Thailand: an approach to coastal zone conservation

GGN Thushari, JDM Senevirathna, A Yakupitiyage… - Marine pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study assessed the microplastic contamination of 3 most abundant sessile and intertidal
invertebrates (Rock Oyster: Saccostrea forskalii, Striped Barnacle: Balanus amphitrite …

The status of marine debris/litter and plastic pollution in the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME): 1980–2020

KK La Daana, H Asmath, JF Gobin - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is one of several anthropogenic stressors putting pressure on ecosystems of
the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME). A 'Clean Ocean'is one of the ambitious …

Origin and abundance of marine litter along sandy beaches of the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast

EN Topçu, AM Tonay, A Dede, AA Öztürk… - Marine environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Beach debris abundance was estimated from surveys on 10 beaches of the Turkish Western
Black Sea Coast. Debris was collected from 20 m long transects during four different …

Aspergillus and aspergilloses in wild and domestic animals: a global health concern with parallels to human disease

S Seyedmousavi, J Guillot, P Arné… - Medical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The importance of aspergillosis in humans and various animal species has increased over
the last decades. Aspergillus species are found worldwide in humans and in almost all …

Description of the small plastics fragments in marine sediments along the Alang-Sosiya ship-breaking yard, India

MS Reddy, S Basha, S Adimurthy… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2006 - Elsevier
This study aimed to assess the accumulation of small plastic debris in the intertidal
sediments of the world's largest ship-breaking yard at Alang-Sosiya, India. Small plastics …

Marine debris review for Latin America and the wider Caribbean region: from the 1970s until now, and where do we go from here?

JAI do Sul, MF Costa - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2007 - Elsevier
The available literature on marine debris from Latin America and the Wider Caribbean
Region was collected and linked, reviewing their methodologies and principal results …