Pelagic microplastics around an archipelago of the Equatorial Atlantic

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 305-309

  Ivar do Sul, Juliana A ^a   Costa, Monica F ^a   Barletta, Mário ^a   Cysneiros, Francisco José A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hard plastic fragments; Plankton samples; Rubber crumbs; Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago; Small scale survey; Synthetic threads

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENERALISED LINEAR MODELS; HARD PLASTIC FRAGMENTS; PLASTIC MARINE DEBRIS; RUBBER CRUMB; SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL ARCHIPELAGO; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; SYNTHETIC THREADS;

BEACHES; DEBRIS; PLANKTON; RUBBER THREAD; SYNTHETIC RUBBER;

OCEAN HABITATS;

PLASTIC; RUBBER;

ARCHIPELAGO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANKTON; PLASTIC WASTE; POLYMER; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD WEB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC ZONE; SALINITY; SEA POLLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WIND; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL ROCKS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84884817573     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.040     Document Type: Article

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