abstract：:Although seabirds are frequently used as sentinel species for anthropogenic pollution, the extent and impacts of synthetic debris ingestion remains poorly studied for many water bird species. Here, we assess ingestion of synthetic particles (≥0.5 mm) by barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, wintering on a remote island. F...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Coughlan NE,Doyle S,Baker-Arney C,Griffith RM,Lyne L,Williams H,Kelly TC,McMahon BJ,Dick JTA,Cunningham EM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wetlands Reserve in Al Wusta Governorate on the Arabian Sea is important for internationally migrating birds and local wildlife, but data on marine litter in the reserve, and wider region, are rare. Seven beaches around the reserve were surveyed for litter in February 2020. Abundance and weight of litter were cate...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： van Hoytema N,Bullimore RD,Al Adhoobi AS,Al-Khanbashi MH,Whomersley P,Le Quesne WJF

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of 7 heavy metals (Cu, Pb, Zn, Cr, Cd, As and Hg) were analysed in 12 sediment cores collected from 6 typical intertidal zones in northern China. The data reveal that the environmental quality of the northern Chinese intertidal environment has gradually improved and that the concentrations of Cu, Pb...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Zhuang H,Gao M,Yan C,Cao Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While globally distributed throughout the world's ecosystems, there is little baseline information on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in marine environments in Australia and, more broadly, the Southern Hemisphere. To fill this knowledge gap, we collected baseline information on POPs in migratory short-tailed shea...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Lewis PJ,McGrath TJ,Chiaradia A,McMahon CR,Emmerson L,Allinson G,Shimeta J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic cyanobacterial blooms, their prevalence in freshwaters, and their impact on water quality are well documented. In contrast, the impact on the recreational value of bathing sites of the cyanotoxin-contaminated inland waters, transported to estuarine and coastal marine waters, has been less frequently studied. The...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Overlingė D,Kataržytė M,Vaičiūtė D,Gyraite G,Gečaitė I,Jonikaitė E,Mazur-Marzec H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil pollution resulting from natural and anthropogenic activities in the Arabian Gulf as well as oil residue in the form of tarmat (TM) deposited on the coast is a major environmental concern. The spatial distribution, chemical composition and weathering pattern of tarmat along the west coast of Qatar has been assesse...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Veerasingam S,Al-Khayat JA,Haseeba KP,Aboobacker VM,Hamza S,Vethamony P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of long-term trends in river water composition is hampered by river composition heterogeneity, and sampling and sample analysis uncertainty. This work describes a novel methodology for the reliable detection of small river composition trends by taking all relevant uncertainty components into account. Th...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Borges C,Bettencourt da Silva RJN,Palma C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastic pollution is an increasing problem in the marine environment. This study had three objectives: 1) determine if seagrass beds and adjacent sand flats in the Florida Keys differed in microplastics concentration, 2) determine if sea cucumbers from the Florida Keys and sand dollars from the panhandle of Flori...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Plee TA,Pomory CM

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity, distribution, and mechanisms of bacterial speciation of Vibrio species belonging to Harveyi clade are an important global research interests due to their pathogenic activity in coastal environments. Luminous bacteria are also known to act as environmental indicators in coastal waters. This study demonst...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chatragadda R,Raju M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeding strategies of Montipora digitata and Porites lutea, two dominant corals in the Okinawan reefs, were investigated. The focus was on pico- and nanoplankton feeding efficiencies, using 6-h incubations. Although healthy M. digitata consumed from 72% to 87% more pico-nanoplankton cells than P. lutea, feeding ra...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sangmanee K,Casareto BE,Nguyen TD,Sangsawang L,Toyoda K,Suzuki T,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invasive coral Tubastraea tagusensis (sun coral) is a habitat-forming species currently increasing its geographical range into the Atlantic Ocean, thereby causing negative ecological and socioeconomic impacts. Scuba divers observed this coral in the western equatorial Atlantic in January 2020, growing at high dens...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Soares MO,Salani S,Paiva SV,Braga MDA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention on port waters is increasing since these economically important infrastructures are embedded in the coastal environment and their management needs to be considered in the monitoring programmes of coastal ecosystems. To implement the sustainable development (blue growth) of port areas, a general knowledge on ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Rossano C,Milstein A,Nuccio C,Tamburini E,Scapini F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A risk assessment framework for direct exposure of residual additives and monomers present in ingested plastic particles, including microplastics, in the Danish marine environment, was presented. Eight cases of different polymer types and product groups were defined that represent the most significant exposures, and t...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Fauser P,Strand J,Vorkamp K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sewage pollution effect in a coastal area of the Southwestern Atlantic was tested, through the use of analysis of biological traits (BTA) and functional indices. Changes in the macrobenthic functional structure between the sewage outfall site and remote sites were observed. At the site in the discharge point, function...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Llanos EN,Saracho Bottero MA,Jaubet ML,Elías R,Garaffo GV

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), north-eastern Australia, is being threatened by the elevated levels of sediments and nutrients discharged from adjacent coastal river systems, the source of these detrimental pollutants are not well understood. Here we used a combined isotopic (δ13C, δ15N) and geoch...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Bahadori M,Chen C,Lewis S,Rashti MR,Cook F,Parnell A,Esfandbod M,Stevens T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization dynamics of protozoan communities were investigated at a depth of 1 m in the coastal waters of the Yellow Sea, northern China from May to June 2019, using modified glass slide (mGS) and modified polyurethane foam unit (mPFU) systems. The colonization process and growth curves of protozoa were well fitted ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Bai X,Zhong X,Guo C,Gui Y,Xu H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses are the most common cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks in humans and bivalve shellfish consumption is a recognized route of infection. Our aim was to detect and characterize norovirus in bivalves from a coastal city of Brazil. Nucleic acid was extracted from the bivalve's digestive tissue concentrates usin...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sarmento SK,Guerra CR,Malta FC,Coutinho R,Miagostovich MP,Fumian TM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration of bacterial species indicative of fecal contamination in the gut of mangrove oysters (Crassostrea gasar) is a major concern for public health and food surveillance. Our work aimed to determine the occurrence, antibiotic-resistance, phylogenetic profile and virulence of Escherichia coli strains isolated ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Oliveira AMS,Baraúna RA,Marcon DJ,Lago LAB,Silva A,Lusio J,Tavares RDS,Tacão M,Henriques I,Schneider MPC

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous laboratory feeding experiments, representing the state-of-the-art methodology to investigate microplastic (MP) ingestion and its impact for fish, tend to disregard both the significance of applying realistic MP densities and the potential relevance of biofilm-coating for ingestion probability. This experiment...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Müller C,Erzini K,Teodósio MA,Pousão-Ferreira P,Baptista V,Ekau W

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of idealised modelling and satellite imagery has been used to assess the dispersal of estuarine plume water and suspended material throughout the ecologically significant marine area off the west coast of the central North Island, New Zealand. The idealised modelling was used to elucidate the relative im...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hunt S,Jones HFE

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased quantity of microplastics entering the oceans is threatening the health of marine ecosystems worldwide. Microplastics are of particular concern because they are available to a wide range of organisms and can possibly transfer potential toxic substances such as trace elements. Herein, we provide baseline ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Martins I,Rodríguez Y,Pham CK

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrodynamics play a critical role in determining the trajectory of an oil spill. Currents, stratification and mesoscale processes all contribute to how a spill behaves. Using an industry‑leading oil spill model, we compare forecasts of oil dispersion when forced with two different hydrodynamic models of the North-Wes...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Gilchrist RM,Hall RA,Bacon JC,Rees JM,Graham JA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OSPAR, Rake and Flood accumulation zone methods were applied at 29 beaches of the German and Lithuanian Baltic Sea coast (2011-2018) to monitor cigarette butt pollution. Also, butt pollution prevention measure - ballot bin, was tested. The number of cigarette butts was significantly higher in Germany than in Lithuania...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Kataržytė M,Balčiūnas A,Haseler M,Sabaliauskaitė V,Lauciūtė L,Stepanova K,Nazzari C,Schernewski G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen PFASs in water (n = 58), sediment (n = 58) and edible fish samples (n = 81) collected from three special management sea areas of Korea including Gwangyang bay, Masan bay and Busan harbor in July 2018 were investigated. The mean PFASs concentration in water (ng/L) were in order Masan (5.09) > Busan (2.82) > Gw...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hung MD,Jung HJ,Jeong HH,Lam NH,Cho HS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eriocheir sinensis is included among the 100 most invasive aquatic invertebrates due to its colonization history and the impacts to biodiversity and economy in the newly invaded environments. Despite of that, its attempts of colonization of the Mediterranean basin seem to have failed so far. In this paper, we summariz...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Crocetta F,Tanduo V,Osca D,Turolla E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In search of an effective method to evaluate plastic contamination, macrolitter (>25 mm), mesolitter (5-25 mm), large microlitter (2-5 mm), large and small microplastics (2-5 mm and 0.5-2 mm) abundances in surface beach sands were simultaneously determined by two methods in four beach zones at six locations along the ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chubarenko I,Esiukova E,Khatmullina L,Lobchuk O,Grave A,Kileso A,Haseler M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of phthalate acid esters (PAEs) in sediments of the Jiaozhou Bay and its relationships with anthropogenic activities and environmental variables were investigated in this work. Thirteen PAEs were prevalent in sediments and the total PAE concentrations ranged from 462.1 to 15,133.2 μg/kg. The P...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Zhang BT,Gao Y,Lin C,Liu T,Liu X,Ma Y,Wang H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogen uptake kinetics and physiological growth of Karenia mikimotoi and Skeletonema costatum sensu lato grown on different N substrates and concentrations were compared in the laboratory. In the presence of three N substrates, both species preferred to take up NH4+. K. mikimotoi and S. costatum s.l. showed the ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Huang K,Feng Q,Zhang Y,Ou L,Cen J,Lu S,Qi Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastic occurrence and composition were investigated along the Polish coast (southern Baltic Sea) on 12 beaches differing in terms of intensity of their touristic exploitation, urbanisation and sediment characteristics. Their mean concentrations varied between 76 and 295 items per kg dry sediment. Fibres and plas...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Urban-Malinga B,Zalewski M,Jakubowska A,Wodzinowski T,Malinga M,Pałys B,Dąbrowska A

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article investigates sediments collected from the banks of the Subaé River located in Todos os Santos Bay in the state of Bahia, Brazil, in 2018, twenty-five years after the closing of a former lead alloy processing plant. Ten sediment samples were collected at different points of the course of the river and its ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： da Silva Júnior JB,Abreu IM,de Oliveira DAF,Hadlich GM,de Albergaria Barbosa ACR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benthic foraminifera are sensitive to environmental changes and widely used as tools to monitor pollution. Rising numbers of deformed tests are often used as indicator for elevated levels of heavy metals, but little is known about the relation between heavy metal incorporation into foraminiferal tests and the formatio...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Boehnert S,Birkelund AR,Schmiedl G,Kuhnert H,Kuhn G,Hass HC,Hebbeln D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the spatial distribution and local characteristics of microplastics (0.33-5 mm) in surface water from six semi-enclosed bays and two coastal waters in Korea. Surveys were conducted in July from 2015 to 2017 using a Manta trawl. The mean abundance of total microplastics ranged from 1.12-4.74 particles/m3 am...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Kwon OY,Kang JH,Hong SH,Shim WJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastic presence in the marine environment has generated considerable concern. Many procedures for microplastics detection in fish gastrointestinal tract have been recently developed. In this study, we compared efficiencies of two common procedures applied for the digestion of organic matter (10% KOH; 15% H2O2) w...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Bianchi J,Valente T,Scacco U,Cimmaruta R,Sbrana A,Silvestri C,Matiddi M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores methods to estimate minimum drift times of ghost nets found in the Maldives with the aim of identifying a putative origin. We highlight that percentage cover of biofouling organisms and capitulum length of Lepas anatifera are two methods that provide these estimates. Eight ghost nets were collected...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Stelfox M,Lett C,Reid G,Souch G,Sweet M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of organotin compounds (OTCs), including dibutyltin, tributyltin, triphenyltin and dioctyltin, contamination in seafood purchased in 2017 and 2018 from Hong Kong market was studied. Edible portions of 341 seafood samples, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs, were used for analysis by gas chromatograph ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chung SWC,Lau JSY,Lau JPK

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil weathering is often described subjectively after a spill. Adjectives like "moderate" and "severe" help define the extent of oil loss but fail to communicate quantitatively and reproducibly the degree of weathering. The use of subjective weathering terms often leads to misperceptions about persistence and toxicity ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Cook LL,Drollette BD,Edwards MR,Benton LD,Boehm PD

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat modification coupled with the spread of non-native species (NNS) are among the top threats to marine biodiversity globally. Species are known to be transported to new locations via international shipping and secondarily spread via regional vessels and artificial structures. Rapid Assessment Surveys (RAS) combi...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： O'Shaughnessy KA,Hawkins SJ,Yunnie ALE,Hanley ME,Lunt P,Thompson RC,Firth LB

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The individual concentrations and sources of sterols in sediments samples collected in two periods 2017 (dry period /March and rainy period/August) were determined along with the Sergipe-Poxim estuarine system, Aracaju, Brazil. The individual sterols concentration ranged from 135 to 21,746 ng g-1 (March) and 191 to 14...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Dos Reis Souza MR,Santos E,Suzarte JS,do Carmo LO,Soares LS,Santos LGGV,Júnior ARV,Krause LC,Frena M,Damasceno FC,Huang Y,da Rosa Alexandre M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:210Po in marine sediment from three peri-urban creeks in Mombasa was analyzed by alpha spectrometry in order to determine its baseline contamination levels. The mean 210Po activity in marine sediment from Mtwapa, Tudor and Makupa creeks were 18.67 ± 1.8, 21.17 ± 2.2 and 13.09 ± 1.6 Bq Kg-1 dw, for surface sediment and...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Okuku EO,Kiteresi LI,Wanjeri VO,Owato GO

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mangroves are highly susceptible to oil exposure. Depending on the severity, oil exposure can result in initial defoliation and eventual recovery through to mass mortality and complete loss of habitat. Some aspects of the impact of oil on mangroves and their recovery are well studied, but the focus has been on short-t...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Connolly RM,Connolly FN,Hayes MA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00