Microplastic pellets (MPPs) are ubiquitous contaminants, recognised as a serious threat to
the biota in coastal, estuarine and marine environment. The distribution, abundance …

Anthropogenic marine debris, mainly of plastic origin, is accumulating in estuarine and
coastal environments around the world causing damage to fauna, flora and habitats. Plastics …

Using a Lagrangian particle tracking model the coastal accumulation of debris from 10 major
Chinese and Korean rivers discharging to the seas around the Korean Peninsula is …

A suite of five ocean models is used to simulate the movement of floating debris generated
by the Great Japan Tsunami of 2011. This debris was subject to differential wind and wave …

Land-based sources contribute approximately 80% of anthropogenic debris in marine
environments. A main pathway is believed to be rivers and storm-water systems, yet this …

Marine plastic litter has been a major concern over the past decade particularly in semi-
enclosed seas such as the Arabian/Persian Gulf, which are likely to impose a relatively …

Flood debris associated with Typhoon Lionrock from the Tumen River at the border between
Russia and North Korea was traced using ocean color and a Lagrangian particle-tracking …

Abstract The Tohoku tsunami of March 2011 ejected a vast amount of debris into the Pacific
Ocean. Wood boring shipworms (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) were either already present in, or …

The family Teredinidae (shipworms) contains 70-plus species of boring bivalves specialized
to live in and digest wood. Traditional means of species identification and taxonomy of this …

An undescribed species of putative Japanese Pyropia first appeared on the central coast of
British Columbia, Canada, in 2015 - ScienceDirect Skip to main contentSkip to article Elsevier …