Mangrove forests as traps for marine litter

Cecilia Martin; Hanan Almahasheer; Carlos M. Duarte

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.067

Mangrove forests as traps for marine litter

Cecilia Martin^*, Hanan Almahasheer, Carlos M. Duarte

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mangrove forests, through pneumatophores, are filters that retain large floating plastic objects and therefore constitute a sink of marine plastic pollution.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	499-508
Number of pages	10
Journal	Environmental Pollution
Volume	247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.067
State	Published - Apr 2019

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Keywords

Coastal ecosystem
Mangroves
Marine litter
Plastic
Saudi Arabia

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Toxicology
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Mangrove forests as traps for marine litter

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