A multi-criteria evaluation system for marine litter pollution based on statistical analyses of OSPAR beach litter monitoring time series

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-70

  Schulz, Marcus ^a   Neumann, Daniel ^a   Fleet, David M ^b   Matthies, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b Administration of the National Park 'Wadden Sea'   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beach evaluation; Canonical correlation analysis; Classification system; Cluster analysis; Marine litter; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; MARINE LITTER; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

BEACHES;

BEACH; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; LITTER; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORTH SEA; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); NORTH SEA;

BEACH EVALUATION; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MARINE LITTER; TEMPORAL TREND;

BATHING BEACHES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LINEAR MODELS; NORTH SEA; SEASONS; SPAIN; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84887255782     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.08.013     Document Type: Article

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