Seasonal variation in the abundance of marine plastic debris in Banderas Bay, Mexico

Tania Pelamatti, Iliana A. Fonseca-Ponce, Lorena M. Rios-Mendoza, Joshua D. Stewart, Emigdio Marín-Enríquez, Ana J. Marmolejo-Rodriguez, Edgar M. Hoyos-Padilla, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Rogelio González-Armas

Producción científica: Contribución a una revistaArtículorevisión exhaustiva

37 Citas (Scopus)

Resumen

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.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)604-610
Número de páginas7
PublicaciónMarine Pollution Bulletin
Volumen145
DOI
EstadoPublicada - ago. 2019
Publicado de forma externa

Huella

Profundice en los temas de investigación de 'Seasonal variation in the abundance of marine plastic debris in Banderas Bay, Mexico'. En conjunto forman una huella única.

Citar esto