Black Sea Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/category/black-sea/ Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:40:13 +0000 de-DE hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://oneearth-oneocean.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-oeoo-logo-unterzeile-blau-1-32x32.jpg Black Sea Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/category/black-sea/ 32 32 The Danube so colourful: A potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in Europe’s second largest river https://oneearth-oneocean.com/research/2014/the-danube-so-colourful-a-potpourri-of-plastic-litter-outnumbers-fish-larvae-in-europes-second-largest-river/ https://oneearth-oneocean.com/research/2014/the-danube-so-colourful-a-potpourri-of-plastic-litter-outnumbers-fish-larvae-in-europes-second-largest-river/#respond Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:40:13 +0000 http://www.oneearth-oneocean.com/kb/?p=394 Aaron Lechner, Hubert Keckeis, Franz Lumesberger-Loisl, Bernhard Zens, Reinhard Krusch, Michael Tritthart, Martin Glas, Elisabeth Schludermann, The Danube so colourful: A potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in Europe's second largest river, Environmental Pollution, Volume 188, May 2014, Pages 177-181, ISSN 0269-7491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2014.02.006. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749114000475) Abstract: Previous studies on plastic pollution of aquatic ecosystems focused on the world's oceans. Large rivers as major pathways for land-based plastic litter, has received less attention so far. Here we report on plastic quantities in the Austrian Danube. A two year survey (2010, 2012) using stationary driftnets detected mean plastic abundance (n = 17,349; mean ± S.D: 316.8 ± 4664.6 items per 1000 m−3) and mass (4.8 ± 24.2 g per 1000 m−3) in the river to be higher than those of drifting larval fish (n = 24,049; 275.3 ± 745.0 individuals. 1000 m−3 and 3.2 ± 8.6 g 1000 m−3). Industrial raw material (pellets, flakes and spherules) accounted for substantial parts (79.4%) of the plastic debris. The plastic input via the Danube into the Black Sea was estimated to 4.2 t per day. Keywords: Plastic debris; Freshwater pollution; Black Sea; Industrial plastics; Drift http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749114000475/pdfft?md5=ed81c3d10349bab5f149358ac081b003&pid=1-s2.0-S0269749114000475-main.pdf

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]]> Aaron Lechner, Hubert Keckeis, Franz Lumesberger-Loisl, Bernhard Zens, Reinhard Krusch, Michael Tritthart, Martin Glas, Elisabeth Schludermann, The Danube so colourful: A potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in Europe's second largest river, Environmental Pollution, Volume 188, May 2014, Pages 177-181, ISSN 0269-7491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2014.02.006. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749114000475) Abstract: Previous studies on plastic pollution of aquatic ecosystems focused on the world's oceans. Large rivers as major pathways for land-based plastic litter, has received less attention so far. Here we report on plastic quantities in the Austrian Danube. A two year survey (2010, 2012) using stationary driftnets detected mean plastic abundance (n = 17,349; mean ± S.D: 316.8 ± 4664.6 items per 1000 m−3) and mass (4.8 ± 24.2 g per 1000 m−3) in the river to be higher than those of drifting larval fish (n = 24,049; 275.3 ± 745.0 individuals. 1000 m−3 and 3.2 ± 8.6 g 1000 m−3). Industrial raw material (pellets, flakes and spherules) accounted for substantial parts (79.4%) of the plastic debris. The plastic input via the Danube into the Black Sea was estimated to 4.2 t per day. Keywords: Plastic debris; Freshwater pollution; Black Sea; Industrial plastics; Drift http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749114000475/pdfft?md5=ed81c3d10349bab5f149358ac081b003&pid=1-s2.0-S0269749114000475-main.pdf

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