River plastic emissions to the world's oceans

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Lebreton, Laurent C M ^a,b   Van Der Zwet, Joost ^c   Damsteeg, Jan Willem ^a   Slat, Boyan ^a   Andrady, Anthony ^d   Reisser, Julia ^a  

^a The Ocean Cleanup Foundation   (Netherlands)

^b Modelling House   (New Zealand)

^c HKV CONSULTANTS   (Netherlands)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; PLASTIC; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MODEL; MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; SEA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA;

EID: 85020399252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15611     Document Type: Article

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