Global review of beach debris monitoring and future recommendations: are we speaking the same language?
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-24, 20:35authored byAna Catarina Serra Goncalves, Jennifer Lavers, Alexander BondAlexander Bond
Marine debris is distributed worldwide and constitutes an increasing threat to our environment. The exponential increase of plastic debris raises numerous concerns and has led to an intensification in plastic monitoring and research. However, global spatial and temporal patterns and knowledge gaps in debris distribution, both on land and at sea, are relatively poorly understood, mainly due to a lack of comprehensive datasets.