Eighty surveys of ten Scottish beaches recorded litter sizes and weights. A simple model of fragmentation explains the distribution of plastic beach litter weights, producing a logarithmic cascade in weight-frequencies having a power law exponent of 1.6. Implications of fragmentation are numerous. Heavy litter is rare, light fragments are common. Monitoring by number is sensitive to minimum observable fragment size, age of the litter, and energy of the foreshore. Mean litter item weights should be used to calculate beach plastic loadings. Presence/absence of mega litter can distort monitoring by weight. Multiple surveys are needed to estimate mega litter statistics. Monitoring by weight can change the perception of the importance of litter ...
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The ...
© 2020 Around the coastline of the UK, macro-debris has been observed in average densities of over 7...
Various field methods have been used globally in an attempt to understand and quantify plastic pollu...
Eighty surveys of ten Scottish beaches recorded litter sizes and weights. A simple model of fragment...
Beach-cleans conducted on the west coast of Scotland investigated the distribution of land- and mari...
Plastic debris has significant environmental and economic impacts in marine systems. Monitoring is c...
This study proposes a set of metrics that is built upon the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in eco...
This study proposes a metric that builds upon the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient to measure l...
Beach litter deposition at a selection of beaches in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, was studied betwe...
Ten methods for sampling beach litter were tested on 16 beaches located around the Firth of Forth, S...
ArticleThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the ...
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The ...
Sandy beaches are one of the most relevant coastal environments in terms of socio-ecological and eco...
Despite the large research effort on reporting quantities of coastal litter, the dynamics of this li...
AbstractGrowing evidence suggests that anthropogenic litter, particularly plastic, represents a high...
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The ...
© 2020 Around the coastline of the UK, macro-debris has been observed in average densities of over 7...
Various field methods have been used globally in an attempt to understand and quantify plastic pollu...
Eighty surveys of ten Scottish beaches recorded litter sizes and weights. A simple model of fragment...
Beach-cleans conducted on the west coast of Scotland investigated the distribution of land- and mari...
Plastic debris has significant environmental and economic impacts in marine systems. Monitoring is c...
This study proposes a set of metrics that is built upon the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in eco...
This study proposes a metric that builds upon the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient to measure l...
Beach litter deposition at a selection of beaches in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, was studied betwe...
Ten methods for sampling beach litter were tested on 16 beaches located around the Firth of Forth, S...
ArticleThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the ...
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The ...
Sandy beaches are one of the most relevant coastal environments in terms of socio-ecological and eco...
Despite the large research effort on reporting quantities of coastal litter, the dynamics of this li...
AbstractGrowing evidence suggests that anthropogenic litter, particularly plastic, represents a high...
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The ...
© 2020 Around the coastline of the UK, macro-debris has been observed in average densities of over 7...
Various field methods have been used globally in an attempt to understand and quantify plastic pollu...