Floating Riverine Litter Flux to the White Sea: Seasonal Changes in Abundance and Composition

• Published in: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• Main Authors: Maria Mikusheva, Maria Pogojeva, Ekaterina Kotova, Alexsander Kozhevnikov, Eleonora Danilova, Anfisa Berezina, Evgeniy Yakushev
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: marine pollution; marine litter; plastic; Arctic rivers; riverine litter; floating litter; marine environmental monitoring; Arctic; White Sea; Onega; dvina
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11020293

Arctic rivers bring litter from their basins to the sea, but accurate data for the Arctic do not exist yet. This study presents the first assessment of floating macro litter input (>2.5 cm) from the Northern Dvina and Onega rivers to the White Sea. The observations were performed based on the Eur...