Modeling Plastics Exposure for the Marine Biota: Risk Maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean)

Modeling Plastics Exposure for the Marine Biota: Risk Maps for Fin Whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean)

Several anthropogenic stressors threaten the Mediterranean basin, which is currently regarded as one of the most impacted marine ecoregions globally. Among those stressors, marine plastic litter is causing increasing concern about its environmental and biological consequences, the latter being large...

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Main Authors: Federica Guerrini, Lorenzo Mari, Renato Casagrandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
plastic pollution
oceanographic modeling
Mediterranean Sea
risk assessment
marine biota
microplastics
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00299/full

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