Using citizen science to investigate the spatial-temporal distribution of floating marine litter in the waters around Taiwan.
Citizen science
Marine litter
Plastic
Ship-based surveys
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
16
01
2020
revised:
19
05
2020
accepted:
19
05
2020
entrez:
14
7
2020
pubmed:
14
7
2020
medline:
16
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Marine litter is currently one of the most widespread pollutants. However, monitoring the spatial-temporal changes of floating marine litter remains challenging. In this study, with data collected by citizen scientists, we investigated the distribution and density of floating marine litter in the waters around Taiwan. With 40 volunteers surveying 978 transects in 410 cruises from December 2017 to December 2018, the overall survey area was approximately 121.26 km
Identifiants
pubmed: 32658669
pii: S0025-326X(20)30419-7
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111301
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Plastics
0
Waste Products
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
111301Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.