Beach litter - Total abundance (No. Items) of litter aggregated over a given period per beach - Official monitoring 2001/2022 v2023 ... : bl_tot_abundance_all_years_beach_monitoring ...

• Main Author: Ifremer, VIGIES Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and MonitoringIFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems for the SEA
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)IFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems for the SEA 2023
• Subjects: /Human Activities/Pollution; Oceanographic geographical features; Beach litter abundance; Litter abundance and type; Black Sea; Northeast Atlantic Ocean 40W; Baltic Sea; Arctic Ocean; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; EMODnet Chemistry; sediment; Marine litter; Arctic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13120/3adba042-b2e6-40a8-a40a-13f80217376e; https://sextant.ifremer.fr/documentation/emodnet_chemistry/api/catalogue.html#/metadata/3adba042-b2e6-40a8-a40a-13f80217376e

This visualization product displays the total abundance of marine macro-litter (> 2.5cm) per beach, per 100m & to 1 survey aggregated over the period 2001 to 2020 from Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) monitoring surveys. EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of beach litter have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB). The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols and reference lists used on a European scale. Preliminary processing were necessary to harmonize all the data: - Exclusion of OSPAR 1000 protocol: in order to follow the approach of OSPAR that it is not including these data anymore in the monitoring; - Selection of MSFD surveys only (exclusion of other monitoring, cleaning and research operations); - Exclusion of beaches without coordinates; - Some categories & some litter ...