Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean)
Several anthropogenic stressors threaten the Mediterranean basin, which is currently regarded as one of the most impacted marine ecoregions globally. Among those stressors, marine plastic litter is causing increasing concern about its environmental and biological consequences, the latter being large...
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ftpuma:oai:pumaoai.isti.cnr.it:EUproject/ECOPOTENTIAL/2019-A0-021 2023-05-15T15:36:41+02:00 Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) Guerrini, F. Mari, L. Casagrandi, R. 2019 application/pdf http://puma.isti.cnr.it/dfdownloadnew.php?ident=EUproject/ECOPOTENTIAL/2019-A0-021 http://puma.isti.cnr.it/rmydownload.php?filename=EUproject/ECOPOTENTIAL/2019-A0-021/2019-A0-021.pdf en eng Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/641762/EU/ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS/ECOPOTENTIAL info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science# info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3389/fmars.2019.00299 http://puma.isti.cnr.it/dfdownloadnew.php?ident=EUproject/ECOPOTENTIAL/2019-A0-021 http://puma.isti.cnr.it/rmydownload.php?filename=EUproject/ECOPOTENTIAL/2019-A0-021/2019-A0-021.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess In: Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 6 (June) article n. 299. Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2019. plastic pollution oceanographic modeling MediterraneanSea risk assessment marine biota microplastics info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftpuma https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00299 2020-01-07T23:14:28Z Several anthropogenic stressors threaten the Mediterranean basin, which is currently regarded as one of the most impacted marine ecoregions globally. Among those stressors, marine plastic litter is causing increasing concern about its environmental and biological consequences, the latter being largely unknown. To improve the understanding of these aspects, here we provide a mapped indicator of the risk of plastic ingestion by the fin whale Balaenoptera physalus, an endangered cetacean whose feeding grounds are located within the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, in the north-western Mediterranean Sea. We analyse a decade (2000-2010) of advection patterns of marine plastic litter, modeled as Lagrangian particles and released from the three major sources: untreated waste along coasts, plastic discharged from rivers and along maritime shipping routes. Risk of exposure to microplastics via food ingestion for fin whales is then evaluated by interlacing the plastic litter distribution obtained via particle tracking with maps of habitat suitability based on bathymetry and satellite-derived estimates of chlorophyll-a. Our modeling results locate the highest risk values in the Central Ligurian Sea, and show that all the three main sources of plastic litter taken into account clearly contribute to impacting cetaceans in the Sanctuary, yet with spatial and interannual variability of patterns. The procedure formalized with our approach can be extended to assess the risk caused by ingestion of plastics by other taxa and/or in other MPAs, as we suggest by providing an application on the whole ecosystem of Pelagos, thus informing targeted actions to tackle the complex issue of marine litter. Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaenoptera physalus Fin whale PUMAlab (ISTI CNR - National Research Council) Frontiers in Marine Science 6 |
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Several anthropogenic stressors threaten the Mediterranean basin, which is currently regarded as one of the most impacted marine ecoregions globally. Among those stressors, marine plastic litter is causing increasing concern about its environmental and biological consequences, the latter being largely unknown. To improve the understanding of these aspects, here we provide a mapped indicator of the risk of plastic ingestion by the fin whale Balaenoptera physalus, an endangered cetacean whose feeding grounds are located within the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, in the north-western Mediterranean Sea. We analyse a decade (2000-2010) of advection patterns of marine plastic litter, modeled as Lagrangian particles and released from the three major sources: untreated waste along coasts, plastic discharged from rivers and along maritime shipping routes. Risk of exposure to microplastics via food ingestion for fin whales is then evaluated by interlacing the plastic litter distribution obtained via particle tracking with maps of habitat suitability based on bathymetry and satellite-derived estimates of chlorophyll-a. Our modeling results locate the highest risk values in the Central Ligurian Sea, and show that all the three main sources of plastic litter taken into account clearly contribute to impacting cetaceans in the Sanctuary, yet with spatial and interannual variability of patterns. The procedure formalized with our approach can be extended to assess the risk caused by ingestion of plastics by other taxa and/or in other MPAs, as we suggest by providing an application on the whole ecosystem of Pelagos, thus informing targeted actions to tackle the complex issue of marine litter. |
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Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) |
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Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) |
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Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) |
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Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) |
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Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: Risk maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean) |
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modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: risk maps for fin whales in the pelagos sanctuary (north-western mediterranean) |
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Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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In: Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 6 (June) article n. 299. Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2019. |
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