Approximately 9 million metric tons of plastics enters the ocean annually, and once in the marine environment, plastic surfaces can be quickly colonised by marine microorganisms …
Anthropogenic litter is a ubiquitous stressor in the global ocean, and poses ominous threats to oceanic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. At the terrestrial-ocean interface, tropical …
RC Alindayu II, LOC Licnachan, RL Luzadas… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the consistent tagging of countries in Southeast Asia as among the top polluters of plastics in the oceans and the increasing local literature documenting the presence and …
The first stranded macrodebris study on a national scale in Indonesia was conducted on 18 beaches from February 2018 to December 2019. The average weight and abundance of …
Southeast (SE) Asia is a highly biodiverse region, yet it is also estimated to cumulatively contribute a third of the total global marine plastic pollution. This threat is known to have …
This study forms the first record to systematically quantify and classify the marine debris from Car Nicobar Island. Car Nicobar is a small remotely located Island in the Nicobar …
This paper provides a review of toxic algal blooms in the Philippine and Malaysian coastal and marine systems, considering relevant available knowledge, including climate change …
Z Yang, Y Lau, Z Lei - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024 - Elsevier
As one of the major sources of pollution emissions in Southeast Asia (SEA), substandard vessels with deficiencies in pollution prevention ability may induce extreme results in local …
Assessing three interlinked issues, plastic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss separately can overlook potential interactions that may lead to positive or negative impacts …