Exponential increase of plastic burial in mangrove sediments as a major plastic sink
| العنوان: | Exponential increase of plastic burial in mangrove sediments as a major plastic sink |
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| المؤلفون: | Hanan Almahasheer, Lotfi Rabaoui, Mohammed A. Qurban, Fadiyah M. Baalkhuyur, Carlos M. Duarte, Periyadan K. Krishnakumar, L. Valluzzi, Ariane Arias-Ortiz, Michael Cusack, Pere Masqué, Vincent Saderne, Cecilia Martin |
| المصدر: | Martin, C, Baalkhuyur, F, Valluzzi, L, Saderne, V, Cusack, M, Almahasheer, H, Krishnakumar, P K, Rabaoui, L, Qurban, M A, Arias-Ortiz, A, Masqué, P & Duarte, C M 2020, ' Exponential increase of plastic burial in mangrove sediments as a major plastic sink ', Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 44, eaaz5593 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5593 Science Advances Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Microplastics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Environmental Studies, DEBRIS, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Sink (geography), PERSIAN-GULF, ECOSYSTEMS, Research Articles, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, ACCUMULATION, geography, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, SEA, biology, MICROPLASTICS, Sediment, SciAdv r-articles, biology.organism_classification, Oceanography, Avicennia marina, Environmental science, Mangrove, Plastic pollution, Tonne, Research Article |
| الوصف: | Exponentially increasing burial rates of microplastics since the 1950s confirm mangrove sediments as long-term sinks. Sequestration of plastics in sediments is considered the ultimate sink of marine plastic pollution that would justify unexpectedly low loads found in surface waters. Here, we demonstrate that mangroves, generally supporting high sediment accretion rates, efficiently sequester plastics in their sediments. To this end, we extracted microplastics from dated sediment cores of the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf mangrove (Avicennia marina) forests along the Saudi Arabian coast. We found that microplastics |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5593 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1ae3832a04fd9440278f14a80fafd608 https://ddd.uab.cat/record/253031 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1ae3832a04fd9440278f14a80fafd608 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5593 |
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