The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

The seafloor covers some 70% of the Earth’s surface and has been recognised as a major sink for marine litter. Still, litter on the seafloor is the least investigated fraction of marine litter, which is not surprising as most of it lies in the deep sea, i.e. the least explored ecosystem. Although ma...

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Main Authors: Miquel Canals, Christopher K Pham, Melanie Bergmann, Lars Gutow, Georg Hanke, Erik van Sebille, Michela Angiolillo, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Alessando Cau, Christos Ioakeimidis, Ulrike Kammann, Lonny Lundsten, George Papatheodorou, Autun Purser, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Marcus Schulz, Matteo Vinci, Sanae Chiba, François Galgani, Daniel Langenkämper, Tiia Möller, Tim W Nattkemper, Marta Ruiz, Sanna Suikkanen, Lucy Woodall, Elias Fakiris, Maria Eugenia Molina Jack, Alessandra Giorgetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
seafloor
marine litter
trawl surveys
visual surveys
deep sea
modelling
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc6d4

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