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Dynamics of Transport, Accumulation, and Export of Plastics at Oceanic Fronts

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2021 14 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Giuseppe Suaria, Maristella Berta, Annalisa Griffa, Anne Molcard, Tamay M. Özgökmen, Enrico Zambianchi, Stefano Aliani

Summary

Ocean fronts and circulation dynamics play a major role in concentrating and transporting plastic debris across the ocean surface, but vertical displacement processes remain poorly understood. Mapping these transport pathways is critical for predicting where microplastics accumulate and which marine food webs face the greatest contamination risk.

Study Type Environmental

Every year, vast quantities of plastic debris arrive at the ocean surface. Nevertheless, our understanding of plastic movements is largely incomplete and many of the processes involved with the horizontal and vertical displacement of plastics in the ocean are still...

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