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Invasions by marine life on plastic debris

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  • David K. A. Barnes

    (British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
    University College Cork)

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Colonization by alien species poses one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity1. Here I investigate the colonization by marine organisms of drift debris deposited on the shores of 30 remote islands from the Arctic to the Antarctic (across all oceans) and find that human litter more than doubles the rafting opportunities for biota, particularly at high latitudes. Although the poles may be protected from invasion by freezing sea surface temperatures, these may be under threat as the fastest-warming areas anywhere2 are at these latitudes.

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  • David K. A. Barnes, 2002. "Invasions by marine life on plastic debris," Nature, Nature, vol. 416(6883), pages 808-809, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:416:y:2002:i:6883:d:10.1038_416808a
    DOI: 10.1038/416808a
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    1. El Ouardighi, Fouad & Kogan, Konstantin & Boucekkine, Raouf, 2017. "Optimal Recycling Under Heterogeneous Waste Sources and the Environmental Kuznets Curve," ESSEC Working Papers WP1711, ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School.
    2. Raouf Boucekkine & Fouad Ouardighi, 2016. "Optimal Growth with Polluting Waste and Recycling," Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, in: Herbert Dawid & Karl F. Doerner & Gustav Feichtinger & Peter M. Kort & Andrea Seidl (ed.), Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making, pages 109-126, Springer.
    3. Linsey E. Haram & James T. Carlton & Luca Centurioni & Mary Crowley & Jan Hafner & Nikolai Maximenko & Cathryn Clarke Murray & Andrey Y. Shcherbina & Verena Hormann & Cynthia Wright & Gregory M. Ruiz, 2021. "Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-5, December.
    4. Oyedotun, T. D. T & Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, 2019. "Beach Litter And Grading Of The Coastal Landscape For Tourism Development In Sections Of Guyana’s Coast," Journal Clean WAS (JCleanWAS), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 3(1), pages 1-9, February.

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