Seabirds, gyres and global trends in plastic pollution
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/7214 2023-05-15T15:07:31+02:00 Seabirds, gyres and global trends in plastic pollution van Franeker, Jan A. Lavender Law, Kara L. 2015-04-11 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7214 en_US eng Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034 Environmental Pollution 203 (2015): 89-96 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7214 doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Environmental Pollution 203 (2015): 89-96 doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034 Fulmarus glacialis Plastic ingestion Marine debris North Atlantic subtropical gyre Industrial plastic pellets Article 2015 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034 2022-05-28T22:59:18Z © The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Pollution 203 (2015): 89-96, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034. Fulmars are effective biological indicators of the abundance of floating plastic marine debris. Long-term data reveal high plastic abundance in the southern North Sea, gradually decreasing to the north at increasing distance from population centres, with lowest levels in high-arctic waters. Since the 1980s, pre-production plastic pellets in North Sea fulmars have decreased by ∼75%, while user plastics varied without a strong overall change. Similar trends were found in net-collected floating plastic debris in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre, with a ∼75% decrease in plastic pellets and no obvious trend in user plastic. The decreases in pellets suggest that changes in litter input are rapidly visible in the environment not only close to presumed sources, but also far from land. Floating plastic debris is rapidly “lost” from the ocean surface to other as-yet undetermined sinks in the marine environment. This paper had its origin in the Marine Debris working group convened by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, with support from Ocean Conservancy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Fulmarus glacialis North Atlantic Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Arctic Environmental Pollution 203 89 96 |
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© The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Pollution 203 (2015): 89-96, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.034. Fulmars are effective biological indicators of the abundance of floating plastic marine debris. Long-term data reveal high plastic abundance in the southern North Sea, gradually decreasing to the north at increasing distance from population centres, with lowest levels in high-arctic waters. Since the 1980s, pre-production plastic pellets in North Sea fulmars have decreased by ∼75%, while user plastics varied without a strong overall change. Similar trends were found in net-collected floating plastic debris in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre, with a ∼75% decrease in plastic pellets and no obvious trend in user plastic. The decreases in pellets suggest that changes in litter input are rapidly visible in the environment not only close to presumed sources, but also far from land. Floating plastic debris is rapidly “lost” from the ocean surface to other as-yet undetermined sinks in the marine environment. This paper had its origin in the Marine Debris working group convened by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, with support from Ocean Conservancy. |
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