Marine litter disrupts ecological processes in reef systems
| Autor: | Marcos Llope, Rodrigo Maia-Nogueira, Cláudio L. S. Sampaio, Diego V. Medeiros, Moacir Santos Tinôco, Gustavo Freire de Carvalho-Souza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Coral reefs 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Marine debris Animals Ecosystem Reef Input reduction 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Human impacts geography Conservation of Water Resources geography.geographical_feature_category Coral Reefs Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Water Pollution Marine habitats Biodiversity Coral reef Pollution Marine biodiversity Marine management Environmental science Anthropogenic debris Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Marine Pollution Bulletin. 133:464-471 |
| ISSN: | 0025-326X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.049 |
| Popis: | Marine litter (ML) contaminates essentially all global coastal and marine environments and drives multiple ecosystem-level effects. Although deleterious effects of ML on several organisms have been investigated in the last years, this information tends to be dispersed or underreported, even in marine biodiversity hotspots such as reef ecosystems. Two are the main goals of this paper: (i) to integrate and synthesize current knowledge on the interactions of ML and reef organisms, and (ii) to evaluate the multiple disruptions on the ecological processes in reef systems. We report here ML-driven ecological disruptions on 418 species across eight reef taxa, including interactions that were previously not addressed in detail, and evaluate their major conservation implications. These results can help raise awareness of global impacts on the world's reefs by highlighting ML associations in different reef systems around the world, and can aid in ML input reduction and marine management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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