Debris size and buoyancy influence the dispersal distance of stranded litter.

Abstract:

:Recent at sea surveys of floating macro-debris in the southeast Atlantic Ocean found that debris increases in size with distance from shore, suggesting that many smaller items, which dominate litter close to urban source areas, sink before dispersing far into the ocean. We test whether this pattern is evident in beach litter in the same region. Freshly stranded beach litter was collected at increasing distances (0km, 100km, 200km and 2800km) from Cape Town, a major urban litter source. Mean size and buoyancy of litter items increased significantly with distance from Cape Town. Size-specific sedimentation due to the ballasting effect of biofouling is a plausible explanation for the disappearance of smaller, less buoyant items. Our results provide further evidence that many low buoyancy items sink and support the hypothesis that size and buoyancy are strong predictors of dispersal distance for floating debris.

journal_name

Mar Pollut Bull

authors

Fazey FMC,Ryan PG

doi

10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.039

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-09-15 00:00:00

pages

371-377

issue

1

eissn

0025-326X

issn

1879-3363

pii

S0025-326X(16)30444-1

journal_volume

110

pub_type

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