Litter behaviour on Mediterranean cobble beaches, SE Spain

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Título: Litter behaviour on Mediterranean cobble beaches, SE Spain
Autor/es: Asensio-Montesinos, Francisco | Anfuso, Giorgio | Williams, Allan T. | Sanz-Lázaro, Carlos
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Gestión de Ecosistemas y de la Biodiversidad (GEB) | Bioquímica Aplicada/Applied Biochemistry (AppBiochem)
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio "Ramón Margalef"
Palabras clave: Litter burial/exhumation | Marine debris | Plastic | Sea storms | Western Mediterranean
Área/s de conocimiento: Ecología
Fecha de publicación: 29-oct-2021
Editor: Elsevier
Cita bibliográfica: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2021, 173(Part B): 113106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113106
Resumen: Despite the large research effort on reporting quantities of coastal litter, the dynamics of this litter is not yet sufficiently understood. Litter inputs in five cobble beaches located in the Mediterranean (Spain) were studied over three months during winter by biweekly litter tagging. Plastic represented the dominant material that reached the beaches (77%). In remote and narrow beaches, storms constituted the main driver in litter dynamics, favouring the accumulation of floating items such as plastic bottles and wood fragments as well as the largest but contrasting effects, increasing litter inputs and outputs from the beach, respectively. In rural beaches, beach users, mainly fisher people, but also tourists, contributed to a notable input of litter to the beach. Burial and exhumation of litter were reported as common occurring processes. Better management actions are required to improve beach environmental quality.
Patrocinador/es: This research is a contribution to the Andalusia PAI Research Group “RNM-328” and to the Ibero-American Beach Management and Certification Network - PROPLAYAS. This work was supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge from Spain [FBIOMARINA19-01].
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/119070
ISSN: 0025-326X (Print) | 1879-3363 (Online)
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113106
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113106
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