Plastic Pollution at a Sea Turtle Conservation Area in NE Brazil: Contrasting Developed and Undeveloped Beaches

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 814-823

  Ivar do Sul, Juliana Assunção ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^b   Friedrich, Ana Cláudia ^b   Matthiensen, Alexandre ^c   Fillmann, Gilberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Garbage; Lightsticks; Marine debris; Marine litter; Microplastics; Overseas debris

Indexed keywords

BEACH; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INGESTION RATE; MARINE POLLUTION; NESTING; PACKAGING WASTE; PLASTIC; POLLUTION CONTROL; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TURTLE;

BAHIA; BRAZIL;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79958064973     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9392-8     Document Type: Article

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