Lim, Cheng Ling Lyons, Youna Liu, Yulu Neo, Mei Lin Müller, Moritz Wong, Changi Cordova, Muhammad Reza Sulistiowati, Sulistiowati Abreo, Neil Angelo S. Ko Gyi, Thanda
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Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability
The ASEAN+3 countries urgently need to present actual data on the state of their marine plastics pollution, so that they can respond to the criticisms of being the top-5 global sources of marine plastics based on modeled predictions, as well as to develop effective response policies based on sound data. While the research outputs on marine plastic ...
Lau-Medrano, Wencheng Gaertner, Daniel Marsac, Francis Guéry, Loreleï
The presence of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gears, including drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), in marine ecosystems poses significant ecological and socioeconomic concerns. The estimation of the number of dFADs in the marine environment is challenging due to the loss of tracking information when dFAD tracking buoys are r...
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Bekova, Radoslava Prodanov, Bogdan
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Frontiers in Marine Science
The threat of anthropogenic marine litter, particularly plastic pollution, to marine ecosystems and human health, has spurred mitigation initiatives and global scientific research. Following the Marine Strategy Framework Directive guidelines, this study evaluated marine litter distribution, cleanliness, and plastic pollution indices along Bulgarian...
Adamopoulou, Argyro Zeri, Christina Garaventa, Francesca Gambardella, Chiara Ioakeimidis, Christos Pitta, Elli
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Oduro-Appiah, Kwaku Afful, Abraham Osei-Tutu, Henrietta
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Frontiers in Psychology
Implementing litter and plastic pollution prevention strategies is essential for cities of developing countries, mainly due to the prevailing high incidence of littering and the urgent need to realize the adverse per capita environmental impact target of the sustainable development goals. In this article, we report the use of the prominent reasoned...
Schernewski, Gerald Escobar Sánchez, Gabriela Felsing, Stefanie Gatel Rebours, Margaux Haseler, Mirco Hauk, Rahel Lange, Xaver Piehl, Sarah
Every year, harbor and sailing festivals attract close to 20 million visitors in the Baltic Sea region, but their consequences on marine litter pollution are still unknown. We combine field studies with model simulations and literature reviews to quantify the annual emissions of floating macro-litter and to assess its retention in estuaries and rol...
Marin, Dragoș Ciucă, Andreea-Mădălina Filimon, Adrian Stoica, Elena
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Ovidius University Annals of Chemistry
Plastic and marine litter is one of the current growing issues worldwide, affecting the unique Black Sea ecosystem as well. Litter is yearly monitored for assessing ecological status across the Romanian beaches. We tested aerial drone-inspection or UAV method versus visual census for efficiency of litter monitoring on two Black Sea beaches, located...
Dissanayake, Awantha Davies, Jaime Selina Kiriakoulakis, Kostas Huvenne, Veerle Ann Ida
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Johnson, Kellie Taylor, Avery Socha, Annika Barkyoumb, Ellie Nakamura, Koichi Kaiser, Carl L. German, Christopher R. Yoerger, Dana R. Van Dover, Cindy Lee
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Systematic surveys of the distribution of epibenthic megafaunal species relative to one another and to environmental variables in the deep sea can lead to inferences and testable hypotheses regarding factors that influence their distributions. Here we use a seascape approach to provide insight into the character and spatial extent of the influence ...
