An integrative assessment of the plastic debris load in the Mediterranean Sea.
Mediterranean Sea
Microplastic
Plastic debris
Sea surface
TARA Mediterranean expedition
ZooScan
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Sep 2022
10 Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
28
01
2022
revised:
09
05
2022
accepted:
11
05
2022
pubmed:
18
5
2022
medline:
16
6
2022
entrez:
17
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Mediterranean Sea is recognized as one of the most polluted areas by floating plastics. During the Tara Mediterranean expedition, an extensive sampling of plastic debris was conducted in seven ecoregions, from Gibraltar to Lebanon with the aim of providing reliable estimates of regional differences in floating plastic loads and plastic characteristics. The abundance, size, surface, circularity and mass of 75,030 pieces were analyzed and classified in a standardized multi-parameter database. Their average abundance was 2.60 × 10
Identifiants
pubmed: 35580673
pii: S0048-9697(22)03055-8
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155958
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Plastics
0
Waste Products
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
155958Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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.