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PT J
TI Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
BT 
AF ERIKSEN, Marcus
   LEBRETON, Laurent C. M.
   CARSON, Henry S.
   THIEL, Martin
   MOORE, Charles J.
   BORERRO, Jose C.
   GALGANI, Francois
   RYAN, Peter G.
   REISSER, Julia
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C1 Five Gyres Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
   Dumpark Data Science, Wellington, New Zealand
   University of Hawaii at Hilo, Marine Science Department, Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America
   Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, Washington, United States of America
   Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
   Millennium Nucleus Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Island (ESMOI), Coquimbo, Chile
   Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile
   Algalita Marine Research and Education, Long Beach, California, United States of America
   eCoast Limited, Raglan, New Zealand
   Institut français de recherche pour l′exploitation de la mer (Ifremer), Departement Océanographie et Dynamique des Ecosystemes, Bastia, Corsica, France
   University of Cape Town, Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Rondebosch, South Africa
   School of Environmental Systems Engineering and University of Western Australia, Crawley, Oceans Institute, Perth, Australia
C2 FIVE GYRES INSTITUTE, USA
   DUMPARK DATA SCIENCE, NEW ZEALAND
   UNIV HAWAII, USA
   WDFW, USA
   UNIV CAT NORTE COQUIMBO, CHILE
   ESMOI, CHILE
   CEAZA, CHILE
   ALGALITA, USA
   ECOAST LIMITED, NEW ZEALAND
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
   UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
SI CORSE
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 3.234
TC 1788
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00248/35917/34450.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere and remote regions. Here we report an estimate of the total number of plastic particles and their weight floating in the world's oceans from 24 expeditions (2007-2013) across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows (N=680) and visual survey transects of large plastic debris (N=891). Using an oceanographic model of floating debris dispersal calibrated by our data, and correcting for wind-driven vertical mixing, we estimate a minimum of 5.25 trillion particles weighing 268,940 tons. When comparing between four size classes, two microplastic <4.75 mm and meso- and macroplastic >4.75 mm, a tremendous loss of microplastics is observed from the sea surface compared to expected rates of fragmentation, suggesting there are mechanisms at play that remove <4.75 mm plastic particles from the ocean surface.
PY 2014
PD DEC
SO Plos One
SN 1932-6203
PU Public Library of Science
VL 9
IS 12
UT 000346611400007
BP 1
EP 15
DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0111913
ID 35917
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