Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review
Twelve seas with an integral coastline length of about 38,000 km wash upon the Russian coasts. They belong to the basins of the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Pacific Oceans and stretch over temperate, subpolar, and polar climate zones. This review of 32 studies published between 2015 and August 2020...
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ftqataruniv:oai:qspace.qu.edu.qa:10576/18451 2024-06-09T07:43:43+00:00 Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review Bagaev, Andrei Esiukova, Elena Litvinyuk, Daria Chubarenko, Irina Veerasingam, Subramanian Venkatachalapathy, Ramadoss Verzhevskaya, Liudmila http://hdl.handle.net/10576/18451 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14183-z https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85105471963&origin=inward en eng Springer http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14183-z Bagaev, A., Esiukova, E., Litvinyuk, D. et al. Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14183-z 09441344 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85105471963&origin=inward http://hdl.handle.net/10576/18451 Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Marine litter Microplastics Pacific Ocean Plastic contamination Russia Article ftqataruniv https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14183-z 2024-05-16T06:45:54Z Twelve seas with an integral coastline length of about 38,000 km wash upon the Russian coasts. They belong to the basins of the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Pacific Oceans and stretch over temperate, subpolar, and polar climate zones. This review of 32 studies published between 2015 and August 2020 analyses the available peer-reviewed scientific publications related to the topic of plastic contamination. At present, plastic contamination of the marine environments is confirmed by field investigations in 7 out of 12 Russian seas. Pollution levels vary widely: from 0.6 to 336,000 items/m for microplastics in water and from 1.3 to 10,179 items/kg (DW)—in sediments, while median macroplastics abundance is around 1.0 item/m at the coast. One monitoring survey of the Barents Sea reported mean macroplastics concentration in the upper 60 m as 0.011 mg/m and 2.9 kg/km at the sea floor. The identification of the polymer types with spectroscopy techniques is performed only in 9 studies (28%); most researchers use visual identification which makes the results difficult to compare. Most projects aimed at the plastic contamination research use their own collection and extraction methods that poorly agree with other studies. Since the pollution levels in most of the areas are relatively low, sampling is inhomogeneous in space and time. The most extensively studied areas are the beaches of the Baltic Sea, while the least examined is the Arctic region. Our study highlights the need for a discussion on harmonizing sampling methodology and identification techniques among different studies. 3 2 3 2 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Qatar University: QU Institutional Repository Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Pacific The Beaches ENVELOPE(-56.832,-56.832,49.583,49.583) Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28 25 32264 32281 |
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Twelve seas with an integral coastline length of about 38,000 km wash upon the Russian coasts. They belong to the basins of the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Pacific Oceans and stretch over temperate, subpolar, and polar climate zones. This review of 32 studies published between 2015 and August 2020 analyses the available peer-reviewed scientific publications related to the topic of plastic contamination. At present, plastic contamination of the marine environments is confirmed by field investigations in 7 out of 12 Russian seas. Pollution levels vary widely: from 0.6 to 336,000 items/m for microplastics in water and from 1.3 to 10,179 items/kg (DW)—in sediments, while median macroplastics abundance is around 1.0 item/m at the coast. One monitoring survey of the Barents Sea reported mean macroplastics concentration in the upper 60 m as 0.011 mg/m and 2.9 kg/km at the sea floor. The identification of the polymer types with spectroscopy techniques is performed only in 9 studies (28%); most researchers use visual identification which makes the results difficult to compare. Most projects aimed at the plastic contamination research use their own collection and extraction methods that poorly agree with other studies. Since the pollution levels in most of the areas are relatively low, sampling is inhomogeneous in space and time. The most extensively studied areas are the beaches of the Baltic Sea, while the least examined is the Arctic region. Our study highlights the need for a discussion on harmonizing sampling methodology and identification techniques among different studies. 3 2 3 2 |
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Bagaev, Andrei Esiukova, Elena Litvinyuk, Daria Chubarenko, Irina Veerasingam, Subramanian Venkatachalapathy, Ramadoss Verzhevskaya, Liudmila |
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Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review |
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Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review |
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Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review |
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Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review |
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Investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the Russian seas: a review |
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investigations of plastic contamination of seawater, marine and coastal sediments in the russian seas: a review |
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