PMID- 29550607
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180808
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 238
DP  - 2018 Jul
TI  - Plastic pollution in islands of the Atlantic Ocean.
PG  - 103-110
LID - S0269-7491(17)33431-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.096 [doi]
AB  - Marine plastic pollution is present in all oceans, including remote oceanic 
      islands. Despite the increasing number of articles on plastic pollution in the 
      last years, there is still a lack of studies in islands, that are biodiversity 
      hotspots when compared to the surrounding ocean, and even other recognized highly 
      biodiverse marine environments. Articles published in the peer reviewed 
      literature (N = 20) were analysed according to the presence of macro (>5 mm) and 
      microplastics (<5 mm) on beaches and the marine habitats immediately adjacent to 
      31 islands of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The first articles date from 
      the 1980s, but most were published in the 2000s. Articles on macroplastics were 
      predominant in this review (N = 12). Beaches were the most studied environment, 
      possibly due to easy access. The main focus of most articles was the spatial 
      distribution of plastics associated with variables such as position of the beach 
      in relation to wind and currents. Very few studies have analysed plastics 
      colonization by organisms or the identification of persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs). Islands of the North/South Atlantic and Caribbean Sea were influenced by 
      different sources of macroplastics, being marine-based sources (i.e., fishing 
      activities) predominant in the Atlantic Ocean basin. On the other hand, in the 
      Caribbean Sea, land-based sources were more common.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Monteiro, Raqueline C P
AU  - Monteiro RCP
AD  - Laboratory of Ecology and Management of Estuarine and Coastal Environments - 
      LEGECE, Departamento de Oceanografia - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. 
      Arquitetura s/n, 500740-540 Recife, Brazil.
FAU - Ivar do Sul, Juliana A
AU  - Ivar do Sul JA
AD  - Laboratory of Ecology and Management of Estuarine and Coastal Environments - 
      LEGECE, Departamento de Oceanografia - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. 
      Arquitetura s/n, 500740-540 Recife, Brazil.
FAU - Costa, Monica F
AU  - Costa MF
AD  - Laboratory of Ecology and Management of Estuarine and Coastal Environments - 
      LEGECE, Departamento de Oceanografia - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. 
      Arquitetura s/n, 500740-540 Recife, Brazil. Electronic address: mfc@ufpe.br.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20180316
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Waste Products)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Atlantic Ocean
MH  - Caribbean Region
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollution
MH  - Islands
MH  - Oceans and Seas
MH  - Plastics/*analysis
MH  - Waste Products/*analysis
MH  - Water Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - West Indies
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Caribbean Sea
OT  - Marine conservation
OT  - Oceanic island
OT  - Plastic debris
EDAT- 2018/03/20 06:00
MHDA- 2018/08/09 06:00
CRDT- 2018/03/19 06:00
PHST- 2017/08/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/01/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/01/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/03/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/08/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/03/19 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0269-7491(17)33431-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.096 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2018 Jul;238:103-110. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.096. Epub 
      2018 Mar 16.