A baseline assessment of beach macrolitter and microplastics along northeastern Atlantic shores
| Autor: | Brahim Sabour, Christopher D. McQuaid, Ugo Valbusa, Nadja Velez, Gerardo I. Zardi, Roberto Lo Savio, Katy R. Nicastro |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
Microplastics Identification Fishing 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Sediments Accumulation Abundance (ecology) Marine debris Litter 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Shore geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Baseline (sea) Ingestion Contamination Pollution Environmental science Plastic marine debris |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| Popis: | Marine litter is widely dispersed throughout coastal environments. Assessing the distribution and accumulation of such contaminants is crucial to understand their environmental impacts. This study presents a baseline for the monitoring of litter and microplastics in intertidal sediments along the Atlantic shores of southern Portugal and Morocco and identifies potential sources of contamination. Although variable, distribution and composition of both litter and microplastics did not follow a latitudinal pattern. Most of the litter had an undifferentiated source. Within the identifiable sources of litter, food packaging, fishing and tobacco were the most abundant, with variable contributions among sites. Over 97% of marine litter retrieved was plastic. Fragments and filaments were the most abundant categories of plastics at sites with the highest and lowest microplastic abundance respectively. Filaments were mainly made of Polypropylene (PP,50%) and Polyethylene terephthalate (PET,29%) while the predominant polymers for fragments were Polyethene (PE, 75%) and PP (25%). Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT-MEC, Portugal) [UID/Multi/04326/2019, IF/01413/2014] South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the Department of Science and Technology [64801] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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