Seasonal variation in the abundance of marine plastic debris in Banderas Bay, Mexico

A floating plastic monitoring program was conducted for two years on a weekly basis in Banderas Bay, Mexico. A total of 94 samples were collected from May 2016 to April 2018 in the southern part of the bay. Half (57%) of them contained plastic debris; 79% of it being

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Veröffentlicht in:	Marine pollution bulletin 2019-08, Vol.145, p.604-610
Hauptverfasser:	Pelamatti, Tania, Fonseca-Ponce, Iliana A., Rios-Mendoza, Lorena M., Stewart, Joshua D., Marín-Enríquez, Emigdio, Marmolejo-Rodriguez, Ana J., Hoyos-Padilla, Edgar M., Galván-Magaña, Felipe, González-Armas, Rogelio
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abundance Bays Debris Dry season Environmental Monitoring Floating Hurricanes Marine debris Mexico Pacific Ocean Plastic debris Plastics Plastics - analysis Plastics - chemistry Polyethylene Polyethylene - analysis Polyethylene - chemistry Polyethylenes Polymers Polypropylene Polypropylenes - analysis Polypropylenes - chemistry Rain Rainfall Seasonal variation Seasonal variations Seasonality Seasons Waste Products - analysis Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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Zusammenfassung:	A floating plastic monitoring program was conducted for two years on a weekly basis in Banderas Bay, Mexico. A total of 94 samples were collected from May 2016 to April 2018 in the southern part of the bay. Half (57%) of them contained plastic debris; 79% of it being
ISSN:	0025-326X 1879-3363
DOI:	10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.062