Marine Anthropogenic Litter
This book describes how man-made litter, primarily plastic, has spread into the remotest parts of the oceans and covers all aspects of this pollution problem from the impacts on wildlife and human health to socio-economic and political issues. Marine litt
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Marine Anthropogenic Litter
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
Melanie Bergmann · Lars Gutow Michael Klages Editors
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
Editors Melanie Bergmann HGF-MPG Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany
Michael Klages Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences University of Gothenburg Fiskebäckskil Sweden
Lars Gutow Biosciences | Functional Ecology Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Bremerhaven Germany This publication is Eprint ID 37207 of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. Permission for photo on cover: Crab Paromola cuvieri walking over plastic litter at a deep-water coral reef off Santa Maria di Leuca (582 m depth), Italy. Also shown: the coral Madrepora oculata and a sponge carried by the fifth pereiopods of the crab as a defence. The image was recorded during dive 728 of the remotely operated vehicle QUEST (MARUM, Bremen University). Reprinted with permission from A. Freiwald, L. Beuck, A. Rüggeberg, M. Taviani, D. Hebbeln, and R/V Meteor Cruise M70-1 Participants. 2009. The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography 22(1):58–74, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2009.06.
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