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TI Shallow Seafloor Litter: Tracking their Sources and Spatiotemporal Trends in the Presence of Oceanographic Drivers through efficient monitoring
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AF Fakiris, Elias
   Papatheodorou, George
   Kordella, Stavroula
   Christodoulou, Dimitris
   Galgani, Francois
   Geraga, Maria
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2;6:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC;6:;
C1 Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece, 26504.
   Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Provence-Azur-Corse, Station de Corse - IFREMER - Immeuble Agostini- Z.I. Furiani 20600 Bastia.
C2 UNIV PATRAS, GREECE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI CORSE
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00851/96306/104600.pdf
LA English
DT Proceedings paper
DE ;Seafloor litter;Long term monitoring;Marine Strategy Framework Directive;litter transport dynamics;Towed Underwater Camera
AB Seafloor litter is the least exploited component of marine litter. The spatially variable distribution of their densities over time is a cumulative effect of sources’ intensities and natural drivers like wind/wave and current conditions in interaction with seafloor morphology. Making safe interpretations about the exact spatiotemporal distribution of benthic litter requires good knowledge of the local above-mentioned seafloor components. In this work, visual monitoring over 3 years of a shallow urbanized bay in Syros Island, Cyclades, Greece, was proved a reliable way to assess the intensity of litter sources along their coasts. It showcased that spatial ranges that are influenced mainly by the annual ocean dynamics should be treated with caution or even excluded from the analysis. There, intense litter fluxes over the year, hinder any effort to separate local anthropogenic littering intensity changes from natural litter input-output fluctuations. Towed underwater camera surveying and auxiliary bathymetric and swath sonar backscatter datasets were used to find links between the seafloor litter transport dynamics and the seabed micro- and macro-topography, finally indicating litter traps and sinks. 
PY 2023
PD AUG
CT Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Athens, Greece, 30 August to 2 September 2023. ISSN 2944-9820. Paper ID: cest2023_00589. 4p.
DI 10.30955/gnc2023.00589
ID 96306
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