An overview of the Black Sea pollution in Turkey

L Bat, A Öztekin, F Şahin, E Arıcı… - Mediterranean Fisheries …, 2018 - dergipark.org.tr
In the last four decades the Black Sea has suffered important changes induced by human
activities. Some 162 million people live in the catchment area of the Black Sea and they …

Marine litter composition and sources on coasts of south-eastern Black Sea: A long-term case study

Y Terzi, C Erüz, K Özşeker - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Long-term monitoring of marine litter composition and density has been conducted between
2009 and 2018 on eleven beaches of Trabzon city located on the south-eastern Black Sea …

[PDF][PDF] Beach litter on Sarayköy Beach (SE Black Sea): density, composition, possible sources and associated organisms

U Aytan, FBE Sahin, F Karacan - Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic …, 2019 - trjfas.org
The composition, density and possible sources of litter were seasonally evaluated in a
selected beach in the Southeastern Black Sea between June 2016 and March 2017. During …

Beach litter contamination of the Turkish middle Black Sea coasts: Spatial and temporal variation, composition, and possible sources

L Bat, A Öztekin, DK Öztürk, P Gürbüzer… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine litter is one of the biggest environmental problems nowadays. Sinop, is located in the
heart of Türkiye's Black Sea coast, has a small population, and is a popular fishing and …

Beach litter pollution in Sinop Sarikum Lagoon coast of the southern Black Sea

A Oztekin, L Bat, OG Baki - 2020 - aperta.ulakbim.gov.tr
In the present study, marine litter pollution on Sarıkum Lagoon coast which is one of the
significant wetlands of the Black Sea was investigated. Beach litter survey was carried out …

Spatial pattern and characteristics of the benthic marine litter in the southern Black Sea shelf

C Erüz, Y Terzi, RÇ Öztürk, FT Karakoç, K Özşeker… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
The abundance and characteristics of benthic marine litter in the southern Black Sea shelf
were demonstrated. During the surveys, 671 litter items weighing 83.93 kg were collected …

The fate of marine litter in semi-enclosed seas: a case study of the Black Sea

EV Stanev, M Ricker - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation patterns of floating marine litter (FML) in the Black Sea and the stranding
locations on coasts are studied by performing dedicated Lagrangian simulations using freely …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of beach macrolitter using unmanned aerial systems: A study along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

R Bekova, B Prodanov - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, the Black Sea has been impacted by the issue of marine litter, which poses
ecological and health threats. A mid-term monitoring program initiated in 2018 assessed the …

Threats to quality in the coasts of the Black Sea: heavy metal pollution of seawater, sediment, macro-algae and seagrass

L Bat, E Arici, A Öztekin - Spatial Modeling and Assessment of …, 2021 - Springer
Marine zones are facing threats due to ever increasing levels of contaminants that affect an
organism's functions and ecological services. In particular, heavy metal pollution is a global …

Marine birds' plastic ingestion: A first study at the Northwestern Black Sea coast

AM Ciucă, M Manea, L Barbeş, E Stoica - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2025 - Elsevier
Seabirds are now facing plastic pollution worldwide, but there is a lack of data on plastic
ingestion at the level of the Black Sea's unique basin. We present a first complete …