TY - JOUR
T1 - Seasonal variation in the abundance of marine plastic debris in Banderas Bay, Mexico
AU - Pelamatti, Tania
AU - Fonseca-Ponce, Iliana A.
AU - Rios-Mendoza, Lorena M.
AU - Stewart, Joshua D.
AU - Marín-Enríquez, Emigdio
AU - Marmolejo-Rodriguez, Ana J.
AU - Hoyos-Padilla, Edgar M.
AU - Galván-Magaña, Felipe
AU - González-Armas, Rogelio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - A floating plastic monitoring program was conducted for two years on a weekly basis in Banderas Bay, Mexico. A total of 94 samples were collected from May 2016 to April 2018 in the southern part of the bay. Half (57%) of them contained plastic debris; 79% of it being <5 mm in length. Polypropylene and Polyethylene were the most abundant polymers, accounting for 45% and 43% of the plastic pieces (pp), respectively. The highest abundance of plastic pieces was found in July 2016, with a maximum of 0.3 pp/m3 found in one sample. The amount of floating plastics was significantly higher in the hurricane season compared to the dry season (p < 0.001). This suggests that rainfall may play a significant role in the offload of plastics from land-based sources into the bay.
AB - A floating plastic monitoring program was conducted for two years on a weekly basis in Banderas Bay, Mexico. A total of 94 samples were collected from May 2016 to April 2018 in the southern part of the bay. Half (57%) of them contained plastic debris; 79% of it being <5 mm in length. Polypropylene and Polyethylene were the most abundant polymers, accounting for 45% and 43% of the plastic pieces (pp), respectively. The highest abundance of plastic pieces was found in July 2016, with a maximum of 0.3 pp/m3 found in one sample. The amount of floating plastics was significantly higher in the hurricane season compared to the dry season (p < 0.001). This suggests that rainfall may play a significant role in the offload of plastics from land-based sources into the bay.
KW - Marine debris
KW - Mexico
KW - Pacific Ocean
KW - Plastics
KW - Rainfall
KW - Seasonality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068171298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.062
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.062
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 31590830
AN - SCOPUS:85068171298
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 145
SP - 604
EP - 610
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
ER -