The Danube so colourful: A potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in Europe's second largest river

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 188, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-181

  Lechner, Aaron ^a   Keckeis, Hubert ^a   Lumesberger Loisl, Franz ^a   Zens, Bernhard ^a   Krusch, Reinhard ^a   Tritthart, Michael ^b   Glas, Martin ^b   Schludermann, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Drift; Freshwater pollution; Industrial plastics; Plastic debris

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION; RIVERS;

BLACK SEA; DRIFT; FISH LARVAE; FRESH WATER POLLUTIONS; LARGE RIVERS; LARVAL FISHES; PLASTIC DEBRIS; PLASTIC POLLUTIONS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

PLASTIC;

FISH; LARVA; LITTER; PLASTIC; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; BLACK SEA; DANUBE; EUROPE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SAMPLING; WATER POLLUTION;

AUSTRIA; BLACK SEA; DANUBE RIVER; EUROPE;

BLACK SEA; DRIFT; FRESHWATER POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL PLASTICS; PLASTIC DEBRIS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; LARVA; PLASTICS; RIVERS; WASTE PRODUCTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84897988862     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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