Breaking the wall of ocean pollution: how marine ecology reveals the collapse of an ecosystem

Jennifer Lavers, a research scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University ofTasmania, studies the shocking effects of plastic pollution on ocean ecosystems, in particular seabirdpopulations. Her 2017 reports on extraordinary pollution levels found on a remote and unin...

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spelling ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:122559 2023-05-15T13:49:03+02:00 Breaking the wall of ocean pollution: how marine ecology reveals the collapse of an ecosystem Lavers, JL 2017 application/pdf http://falling-walls.com/conference/speakers-2017 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122559 en eng . http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122559/1/2017 Speakers _ Falling Walls.pdf Lavers, JL, Breaking the wall of ocean pollution: how marine ecology reveals the collapse of an ecosystem, The International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society, 08-09 November, Berlin (2017) [Keynote Presentation] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122559 Environmental Sciences Environmental Science and Management Conservation and Biodiversity Keynote Presentation NonPeerReviewed 2017 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T22:21:24Z Jennifer Lavers, a research scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University ofTasmania, studies the shocking effects of plastic pollution on ocean ecosystems, in particular seabirdpopulations. Her 2017 reports on extraordinary pollution levels found on a remote and uninhabited islanddeep in the Pacific Ocean listed as UNESCO World Heritage, has served as a global wake-up call on thealarming state of our oceans. Based on her outstanding field research and equipped with haunting examplesof wildlife destruction by human hand, Jennifer advocates for urgent action by governments, companies andindividuals in order to avoid a complete and irreversible collapse of the worlds oceans. Text Antarc* Antarctic Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic Pacific
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