FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI A global inventory of small floating plastic debris
BT 
AF VAN SEBILLE, Erik
   WILCOX, Chris
   LEBRETON, Laurent
   MAXIMENKO, Nikolai
   HARDESTY, Britta Denise
   VAN FRANEKER, Jan A.
   ERIKSEN, Marcus
   SIEGEL, David
   GALGANI, Francois
   LAW, Kara Lavender
AS 1:1,2,3;2:4;3:5;4:6;5:4;6:7;7:8;8:9,10;9:11;10:12;
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C1 Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Grantham Inst, London, England.
   Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Phys, London, England.
   Univ New S Wales, ARC Ctr Excellence Climate Syst Sci, Climate Change Res Ctr, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
   CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
   Dumpk Data Sci, Wellington, New Zealand.
   Univ Hawaii Manoa, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Technol, Int Pacific Res Ctr, Honolulu, HI USA.
   Wageningen UR, IMARES, Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
   Five Gyres Inst, Los Angeles, CA USA.
   Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geog, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
   Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Earth Res Inst, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
   IFREMER, Bastia, France.
   Sea Educ Assoc, Woods Hole, MA USA.
C2 UNIV LONDON, UK
   UNIV LONDON, UK
   UNIV NEW S WALES, AUSTRALIA
   CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
   DUMPK DATA SCI, NEW ZEALAND
   UNIV HAWAII, USA
   IMARES, NETHERLANDS
   FIVE GYRES INST, USA
   UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA, USA
   UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (SEA), USA
SI CORSE
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 4.134
TC 975
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00309/42053/41349.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00309/42053/41350.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;marine debris;ocean circulation;model comparison
AB Microplastic debris floating at the ocean surface can harm marine life. Understanding the severity of this harm requires knowledge of plastic abundance and distributions. Dozens of expeditions measuring microplastics have been carried out since the 1970s, but they have primarily focused on the North Atlantic and North Pacific accumulation zones, with much sparser coverage elsewhere. Here, we use the largest dataset of microplastic measurements assembled to date to assess the confidence we can have in global estimates of microplastic abundance and mass. We use a rigorous statistical framework to standardize a global dataset of plastic marine debris measured using surface-trawling plankton nets and coupled this with three different ocean circulation models to spatially interpolate the observations. Our estimates show that the accumulated number of microplastic particles in 2014 ranges from 15 to 51 trillion particles, weighing between 93 and 236 thousand metric tons, which is only approximately 1% of global plastic waste estimated to enter the ocean in the year 2010. These estimates are larger than previous global estimates, but vary widely because the scarcity of data in most of the world ocean, differences in model formulations, and fundamental knowledge gaps in the sources, transformations and fates of microplastics in the ocean.
PY 2015
PD DEC
SO Environmental Research Letters
SN 1748-9326
PU Iop Publishing Ltd
VL 12
IS 12
UT 000367286300013
DI 10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124006
ID 42053
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