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2. Chapter Chemical composition of microplastics floating on the Mediterranean Sea surface

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Kedzierski, Mikaël, Palazot, Maialen, Soccalingame, Lata, Falcou-Préfol, Mathilde, Gorsky, Gabriel, Galgani, François, Bruzaud, Stéphane, and Pedrotti, Maria Luiza

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Microplastics, Mediterranean Sea, FTIR, Chemical composition, Poly(ethylene), thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment
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Main objective of this study was to describe chemical composition of MP collected in surface waters of Mediterranean Sea. Samples were collected by manta net during Tara Mediterranean expedition (June–Nov.2014). Our results pointed to certain homogeneity at Mediterranean Sea scale. Main polymers collected were polyethylene (PE) (67.3±2.4%), polypropylene (20.8±2.1%), polystyrene (3.0±0.9%). Still, discrepancies, confirmed by literature, were observed at mesoscale level. Thus, in North Tyrrhenian Sea, proportion of PE was significantly lower than average value of Mediterranean Sea (57.9±10.5%).

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2022
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3. Bioaccumulation of trace metals in the plastisphere: Awareness of environmental risk from a European perspective

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Lenoble, Véronique, Cindrić, Ana-Marija, Briand, Jean-François, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Lacerda, Ana Luzia, Muniategui-Lorenzo, Soledad, Fernández-González, Veronica, Moscoso-Pérez, Carmen Ma, Andrade-Garda, José M., Casotti, Raffaella, Murano, Carola, Donnarumma, Vincenzo, Frizzi, Sébastien, Hannon, Colin, Joyce, Haleigh, Nash, Róisín, and Frias, João

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2024
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8. The ocean sampling day consortium

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Kopf, Anna, Bicak, Mesude, Kottmann, Renzo, Schnetzer, Julia, Kostadinov, Ivaylo, Lehmann, Katja, Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio, Jeanthon, Christian, Rahav, Eyal, Ullrich, Matthias, Wichels, Antje, Gerdts, Gunnar, Polymenakou, Paraskevi, Kotoulas, Giorgos, Siam, Rania, Abdallah, Rehab Z, Sonnenschein, Eva C, Cariou, Thierry, O’Gara, Fergal, Jackson, Stephen, Orlic, Sandi, Steinke, Michael, Busch, Julia, Duarte, Bernardo, Caçador, Isabel, Canning-Clode, João, Bobrova, Oleksandra, Marteinsson, Viggo, Reynisson, Eyjolfur, Loureiro, Clara Magalhães, Luna, Gian Marco, Quero, Grazia Marina, Löscher, Carolin R, Kremp, Anke, DeLorenzo, Marie E, Øvreås, Lise, Tolman, Jennifer, LaRoche, Julie, Penna, Antonella, Frischer, Marc, Davis, Timothy, Katherine, Barker, Meyer, Christopher P, Ramos, Sandra, Magalhães, Catarina, Jude-Lemeilleur, Florence, Aguirre-Macedo, Ma Leopoldina, Wang, Shiao, Poulton, Nicole, Jones, Scott, Collin, Rachel, Fuhrman, Jed A, Conan, Pascal, Alonso, Cecilia, Stambler, Noga, Goodwin, Kelly, Yakimov, Michael M, Baltar, Federico, Bodrossy, Levente, Van De Kamp, Jodie, Frampton, Dion MF, Ostrowski, Martin, Van Ruth, Paul, Malthouse, Paul, Claus, Simon, Deneudt, Klaas, Mortelmans, Jonas, Pitois, Sophie, Wallom, David, Salter, Ian, Costa, Rodrigo, Schroeder, Declan C, Kandil, Mahrous M, Amaral, Valentina, Biancalana, Florencia, Santana, Rafael, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Yoshida, Takashi, Ogata, Hiroyuki, Ingleton, Tim, Munnik, Kate, Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara, Berteaux-Lecellier, Veronique, Wecker, Patricia, Cancio, Ibon, Vaulot, Daniel, Bienhold, Christina, Ghazal, Hassan, Chaouni, Bouchra, Essayeh, Soumya, Ettamimi, Sara, Zaid, El Houcine, Boukhatem, Noureddine, Bouali, Abderrahim, Chahboune, Rajaa, Barrijal, Said, Timinouni, Mohammed, El Otmani, Fatima, Bennani, Mohamed, and Mea, Marianna

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Microbiology, Oceanography, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Below Water, Biodiversity, Database Management Systems, Marine Biology, Metagenomics, Oceans and Seas, Ocean sampling day, OSD, Genomics, Health Index, Bacteria, Microorganism, Marine, Micro B3, Standards
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Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world's oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the largest standardized microbial data set in a single day. This will be achievable only through the coordinated efforts of an Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, supportive partnerships and networks between sites. This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Consortium and describes our vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and their embedded functional traits.

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2015

11. TARA Mediterranean Expedition: Assessing the Impact of Microplastics on Mediterranean Ecosystem

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Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia, Lombard, Fabien, Galgani, François, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, Henry, Maryvonne, Elineau, Amanda, Petit, Stéphanie, Fernandez-de-Puelles, María Luz, Gasparini, Stéphane, Tirelli, Valentina, Jamet, Jean-Louis, Gorsky, Gabriel, Cocca, Mariacristina, editor, Di Pace, Emilia, editor, Errico, Maria Emanuela, editor, Gentile, Gennaro, editor, Montarsolo, Alessio, editor, and Mossotti, Raffaella, editor

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2018
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12. Assessing the Plastisphere from Floating Plastics in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, with Emphasis on Viruses.

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Lacerda, Ana Luzia, Briand, Jean-François, Lenoble, Véronique, Oreste, Eliézer Quadro, Kessler, Felipe, and Pedrotti, Maria Luiza

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WHITE spot syndrome virus, VIBRIO alginolyticus, PLASTICS, ECOSYSTEM dynamics, ECOLOGICAL disturbances, PROTEOBACTERIA, ECOLOGICAL impact
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Plastics in the ocean create the "plastisphere", a diverse habitat hosting various life forms. Other than the pollution induced by plastics, the co-occurrence of primary producers, symbiotic organisms, decomposers, and pathogens within the plastisphere raises questions about how they influence the dynamics of marine ecosystems. Here, we used a shotgun DNA-sequencing approach to describe the species thriving on floating plastics collected in two Mediterranean sites. Our findings revealed many species of bacteria, eukaryotes, viruses, and archaea on each plastic. Proteobacteria was dominant (70% of reads in the entire dataset), with other groups such as Ascomycota fungi (11%) and Bacteroidetes (9%) also being represented. The community structure was not affected by the polymeric composition or the plastic shape. Notably, pathogenic Vibrio species, including V. campbelli, V. alginolyticus, and V. coralliilyticus, were among the most abundant species. Viruses, despite showing lower relative abundances, occurred in all samples, especially Herpesvirales, Caudovirales, and Poxviridae groups. A significant finding was the presence of the White Spot Syndrome virus (WSSV). This pathogen, responsible for devastating outbreaks in aquaculture systems, had not been previously reported in the marine plastisphere. Our study emphasizes the need for further investigation into the ecological and economic impacts of plastisphere organisms in the ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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18. Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems

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Lombard, Fabien, primary, Bourdin, Guillaume, additional, Pesant, Stéphane, additional, Agostini, Sylvain, additional, Baudena, Alberto, additional, Boissin, Emilie, additional, Cassar, Nicolas, additional, Clampitt, Megan, additional, Conan, Pascal, additional, Da Silva, Ophélie, additional, Dimier, Céline, additional, Douville, Eric, additional, Elineau, Amanda, additional, Fin, Jonathan, additional, Flores, J. Michel, additional, Ghiglione, Jean-François, additional, Hume, Benjamin C. C., additional, Jalabert, Laetitia, additional, John, Seth G., additional, Kelly, Rachel L., additional, Koren, Ilan, additional, Lin, Yajuan, additional, Marie, Dominique, additional, McMinds, Ryan, additional, Mériguet, Zoé, additional, Metzl, Nicolas, additional, Paz-García, David A., additional, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, additional, Poulain, Julie, additional, Pujo-Pay, Mireille, additional, Ras, Joséphine, additional, Reverdin, Gilles, additional, Romac, Sarah, additional, Rouan, Alice, additional, Röttinger, Eric, additional, Vardi, Assaf, additional, Voolstra, Christian R., additional, Moulin, Clémentine, additional, Iwankow, Guillaume, additional, Banaigs, Bernard, additional, Bowler, Chris, additional, de Vargas, Colomban, additional, Forcioli, Didier, additional, Furla, Paola, additional, Galand, Pierre E., additional, Gilson, Eric, additional, Reynaud, Stéphanie, additional, Sunagawa, Shinichi, additional, Sullivan, Matthew B., additional, Thomas, Olivier P., additional, Troublé, Romain, additional, Thurber, Rebecca Vega, additional, Wincker, Patrick, additional, Zoccola, Didier, additional, Allemand, Denis, additional, Planes, Serge, additional, Boss, Emmanuel, additional, and Gorsky, Gaby, additional

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2023
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23. Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems

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Lombard, Fabien, Bourdin, Guillaume, Pesant, Stéphane, Agostini, Sylvain, Baudena, Alberto, Boissin, Emilie, Cassar, Nicolas, Clampitt, Megan, Conan, Pascal, Da Silva, Ophélie, Dimier, Céline, Douville, Eric, Elineau, Amanda, Fin, Jonathan, Flores, J. Michel, Ghiglione, Jean-françois, Hume, Benjamin C. C., Jalabert, Laetitia, John, Seth G., Kelly, Rachel L., Koren, Ilan, Lin, Yajuan, Marie, Dominique, Mcminds, Ryan, Mériguet, Zoé, Metzl, Nicolas, Paz-garcía, David A., Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Poulain, Julie, Pujo-pay, Mireille, Ras, Joséphine, Reverdin, Gilles, Romac, Sarah, Rouan, Alice, Röttinger, Eric, Vardi, Assaf, Voolstra, Christian R., Moulin, Clémentine, Iwankow, Guillaume, Banaigs, Bernard, Bowler, Chris, De Vargas, Colomban, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre E., Gilson, Eric, Reynaud, Stéphanie, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Sullivan, Matthew B., Thomas, Olivier P., Troublé, Romain, Thurber, Rebecca Vega, Wincker, Patrick, Zoccola, Didier, Allemand, Denis, Planes, Serge, Boss, Emmanuel, Gorsky, Gaby, Lombard, Fabien, Bourdin, Guillaume, Pesant, Stéphane, Agostini, Sylvain, Baudena, Alberto, Boissin, Emilie, Cassar, Nicolas, Clampitt, Megan, Conan, Pascal, Da Silva, Ophélie, Dimier, Céline, Douville, Eric, Elineau, Amanda, Fin, Jonathan, Flores, J. Michel, Ghiglione, Jean-françois, Hume, Benjamin C. C., Jalabert, Laetitia, John, Seth G., Kelly, Rachel L., Koren, Ilan, Lin, Yajuan, Marie, Dominique, Mcminds, Ryan, Mériguet, Zoé, Metzl, Nicolas, Paz-garcía, David A., Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Poulain, Julie, Pujo-pay, Mireille, Ras, Joséphine, Reverdin, Gilles, Romac, Sarah, Rouan, Alice, Röttinger, Eric, Vardi, Assaf, Voolstra, Christian R., Moulin, Clémentine, Iwankow, Guillaume, Banaigs, Bernard, Bowler, Chris, De Vargas, Colomban, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre E., Gilson, Eric, Reynaud, Stéphanie, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Sullivan, Matthew B., Thomas, Olivier P., Troublé, Romain, Thurber, Rebecca Vega, Wincker, Patrick, Zoccola, Didier, Allemand, Denis, Planes, Serge, Boss, Emmanuel, and Gorsky, Gaby

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The Tara Pacific expedition (2016–2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean and the ocean surface waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58 000 samples. The expedition was designed to systematically study warm-water coral reefs and included the collection of corals, fish, plankton, and seawater samples for advanced biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. Here we provide a complete description of the sampling methodology, and we explain how to explore and access the different datasets generated by the expedition. Environmental context data were obtained from taxonomic registries, gazetteers, almanacs, climatologies, operational biogeochemical models, and satellite observations. The quality of the different environmental measures has been validated not only by various quality control steps, but also through a global analysis allowing the comparison with known environmental large-scale structures. Such publicly released datasets open the perspective to address a wide range of scientific questions.

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2023
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24. Low-Density Plastic Debris Dispersion beneath the Mediterranean Sea Surface

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Baudena, Alberto, Kiko, Rainer, Jalón-Rojas, Isabel, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Baudena, Alberto, Kiko, Rainer, Jalón-Rojas, Isabel, and Pedrotti, Maria Luiza

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Plastic is a widespread marine pollutant, with most studies focusing on the distribution of floating plastic debris at the sea surface. Recent evidence, however, indicates a significant presence of such low density plastic in the water column and at the seafloor, but information on its origin and dispersion is lacking. Here, we studied the pathways and fate of sinking plastic debris in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the most polluted world seas. We used a recent Lagrangian plastic-tracking model, forced with realistic parameters, including a maximum estimated sinking speed of 7.8 m/d. Our simulations showed that the locations where particles left the surface differed significantly from those where they reached the seafloor, with lateral transport distances between 119 and 282 km. Furthermore, 60% of particles deposited on the bottom coastal strip (20 km wide) were released from vessels, 20% from the facing country, and 20% from other countries. Theoretical considerations furthermore suggested that biological activities potentially responsible for the sinking of low density plastic occur throughout the water column. Our findings indicate that the responsibility for seafloor plastic pollution is shared among Mediterranean countries, with potential impact on pelagic and benthic biota.

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2023
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25. Correction: The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

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Landrigan, Philip J., primary, Raps, Hervé, additional, Cropper, Maureen, additional, Bald, Caroline, additional, Brunner, Manuel, additional, Canonizado, Elvia Maya, additional, Charles, Dominic, additional, Chiles, Thomas C., additional, Donohue, Mary J., additional, Enck, Judith, additional, Fenichel, Patrick, additional, Fleming, Lora E., additional, Ferrier-Pages, Christine, additional, Fordham, Richard, additional, Gozt, Aleksandra, additional, Griffin, Carly, additional, Hahn, Mark E., additional, Haryanto, Budi, additional, Hixson, Richard, additional, Ianelli, Hannah, additional, James, Bryan D., additional, Kumar, Pushpam, additional, Laborde, Amalia, additional, Law, Kara Lavender, additional, Martin, Keith, additional, Mu, Jenna, additional, Mulders, Yannick, additional, Mustapha, Adetoun, additional, Niu, Jia, additional, Pahl, Sabine, additional, Park, Yongjoon, additional, Pedrotti, Maria-Luiza, additional, Pitt, Jordan Avery, additional, Ruchirawat, Mathuros, additional, Seewoo, Bhedita Jaya, additional, Spring, Margaret, additional, Stegeman, John J., additional, Suk, William, additional, Symeonides, Christos, additional, Takada, Hideshige, additional, Thompson, Richard C., additional, Vicini, Andrea, additional, Wang, Zhanyun, additional, Whitman, Ella, additional, Wirth, David, additional, Wolff, Megan, additional, Yousuf, Aroub K., additional, and Dunlop, Sarah, additional

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2023
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26. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

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Landrigan, Philip J., primary, Raps, Hervé, additional, Cropper, Maureen, additional, Bald, Caroline, additional, Brunner, Manuel, additional, Canonizado, Elvia Maya, additional, Charles, Dominic, additional, Chiles, Thomas C., additional, Donohue, Mary J., additional, Enck, Judith, additional, Fenichel, Patrick, additional, Fleming, Lora E., additional, Ferrier-Pages, Christine, additional, Fordham, Richard, additional, Gozt, Aleksandra, additional, Griffin, Carly, additional, Hahn, Mark E., additional, Haryanto, Budi, additional, Hixson, Richard, additional, Ianelli, Hannah, additional, James, Bryan D., additional, Kumar, Pushpam, additional, Laborde, Amalia, additional, Law, Kara Lavender, additional, Martin, Keith, additional, Mu, Jenna, additional, Mulders, Yannick, additional, Mustapha, Adetoun, additional, Niu, Jia, additional, Pahl, Sabine, additional, Park, Yongjoon, additional, Pedrotti, Maria-Luiza, additional, Pitt, Jordan Avery, additional, Ruchirawat, Mathuros, additional, Seewoo, Bhedita Jaya, additional, Spring, Margaret, additional, Stegeman, John J., additional, Suk, William, additional, Symeonides, Christos, additional, Takada, Hideshige, additional, Thompson, Richard C., additional, Vicini, Andrea, additional, Wang, Zhanyun, additional, Whitman, Ella, additional, Wirth, David, additional, Wolff, Megan, additional, Yousuf, Aroub K., additional, and Dunlop, Sarah, additional

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2023
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28. TARA Mediterranean Expedition: Assessing the Impact of Microplastics on Mediterranean Ecosystem

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Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, primary, Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia, additional, Lombard, Fabien, additional, Galgani, François, additional, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, additional, Henry, Maryvonne, additional, Elineau, Amanda, additional, Petit, Stéphanie, additional, Fernandez-de-Puelles, María Luz, additional, Gasparini, Stéphane, additional, Tirelli, Valentina, additional, Jamet, Jean-Louis, additional, and Gorsky, Gabriel, additional

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2017
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31. An integrative assessment of the plastic debris load in the Mediterranean Sea

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Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, primary, Lombard, Fabien, additional, Baudena, Alberto, additional, Galgani, François, additional, Elineau, Amanda, additional, Petit, Stephanie, additional, Henry, Maryvonne, additional, Troublé, Romain, additional, Reverdin, Gilles, additional, Ser-Giacomi, Enrico, additional, Kedzierski, Mikaël, additional, Boss, Emmanuel, additional, and Gorsky, Gabriel, additional

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2022
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32. An integrative assessment of the plastic debris load in the Mediterranean Sea

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Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Lombard, Fabien, Baudena, Alberto, Galgani, Francois, Elineau, Amanda, Petit, Stephanie, Henry, Maryvonne, Troublé, Romain, Reverdin, Gilles, Ser-giacomi, Enrico, Kedzierski, Mikaël, Boss, Emmanuel, Gorsky, Gabriel, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Lombard, Fabien, Baudena, Alberto, Galgani, Francois, Elineau, Amanda, Petit, Stephanie, Henry, Maryvonne, Troublé, Romain, Reverdin, Gilles, Ser-giacomi, Enrico, Kedzierski, Mikaël, Boss, Emmanuel, and Gorsky, Gabriel

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The Mediterranean Sea is recognized as one of the most polluted areas by floating plastics. During the Tara Mediterranean expedition, an extensive sampling of plastic debris was conducted in seven ecoregions, from Gibraltar to Lebanon with the aim of providing reliable estimates of regional differences in floating plastic loads and plastic characteristics. The abundance, size, surface, circularity and mass of 75,030 pieces were analyzed and classified in a standardized multi-parameter database. Their average abundance was 2.60 × 105 items km−2 (2.25 × 103 to 8.50 × 106 km−2) resulting in an estimate of about 650 billion plastic particles floating on the surface of the Mediterranean. This corresponds to an average of 660 metric tons of plastic, at the lower end of literature estimates. High concentrations of plastic were observed in the northwestern coastal regions, north of the Tyrrhenian Sea, but also off the western and central Mediterranean basins. The Levantine basin south of Cyprus had the lowest concentrations. A Lagrangian Plastic Pollution Index (LPPI) predicting the concentration of plastic debris was validated using the spatial resolution of the data. The advanced state of plastic degradation detected in the analyses led to the conclusion that stranding/fragmentation/resuspension suggests it is a key process in the dynamics of floating plastic in Mediterranean surface waters. This is supported by the significant correlation between pollution sources and areas of high plastic concentration obtained by the LPPI.

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2022
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33. Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems

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Lombard, Fabien, primary, Bourdin, Guillaume, additional, Pesant, Stéphane, additional, Agostini, Sylvain, additional, Baudena, Alberto, additional, Boissin, Emilie, additional, Cassar, Nicolas, additional, Clampitt, Megan, additional, Conan, Pascal, additional, Silva, Ophélie Da, additional, Dimier, Céline, additional, Douville, Eric, additional, Elineau, Amanda, additional, Fin, Jonathan, additional, Flores, J. Michel, additional, Ghiglione, Jean François, additional, Hume, Benjamin C.C., additional, Jalabert, Laetitia, additional, John, Seth G., additional, Kelly, Rachel L., additional, Koren, Ilan, additional, Lin, Yajuan, additional, Marie, Dominique, additional, McMinds, Ryan, additional, Mériguet, Zoé, additional, Metzl, Nicolas, additional, Paz-García, David A., additional, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, additional, Poulain, Julie, additional, Pujo-Pay, Mireille, additional, Ras, Joséphine, additional, Reverdin, Gilles, additional, Romac, Sarah, additional, Rouan, Alice, additional, Röttinger, Eric, additional, Vardi, Assaf, additional, Voolstra, Christian R., additional, Moulin, Clémentine, additional, Iwankow, Guillaume, additional, Banaigs, Bernard, additional, Bowler, Chris, additional, de Vargas, Colomban, additional, Forcioli, Didier, additional, Furla, Paola, additional, Galand, Pierre E., additional, Gilson, Eric, additional, Reynaud, Stéphanie, additional, Sunagawa, Shinichi, additional, Sullivan, Matthew B., additional, Thomas, Olivier, additional, Troublé, Romain, additional, Thurber, Rebecca Vega, additional, Wincker, Patrick, additional, Zoccola, Didier, additional, Allemand, Denis, additional, Planes, Serge, additional, Boss, Emmanuel, additional, and Gorsky, Gaby, additional

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2022
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34. Mistaking plastic for zooplankton: Risk assessment of plastic ingestion in the Mediterranean sea

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Baudena Alberto, Fabri-Ruiz Salomé, Moullec Fabien, Lombard Fabien, Irisson Jean-Olivier, and Pedrotti Maria-Luiza

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Mammals, History, Environmental Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Fishes, Risk Assessment, Pollution, Zooplankton, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Eating, Mediterranean Sea, Animals, Environmental Chemistry, Business and International Management, Plastics, Waste Management and Disposal, Environmental Monitoring
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Floating plastic debris is a pervasive pollutant in seas and oceans, affecting a wide range of animals. In particular, microplastics (

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2023

36. Expanding Tara Oceans Protocols for Underway, Ecosystemic Sampling of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface During Tara Pacific Expedition (2016–2018)

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Gorsky, Gabriel, Bourdin, Guillaume, Lombard, Fabien, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Audrain, Samuel, Bin, Nicolas, Boss, Emmanuel, Bowler, Chris, Cassar, Nicolas, Caudan, Loic, Chabot, Genevieve, Cohen, Natalie R., Cron, Daniel, De Vargas, Colomban, Dolan, John R., Douville, Eric, Elineau, Amanda, Flores, J. Michel, Ghiglione, Jean Francois, Haentjens, Nils, Hertau, Martin, John, Seth G., Kelly, Rachel L., Koren, Ilan, Lin, Yajuan, Marie, Dominique, Moulin, Clementine, Moucherie, Yohann, Pesant, Stephane, Picheral, Marc, Poulain, Julie, Pujo-pay, Mireille, Reverdin, Gilles, Romac, Sarah, Sullivan, Mathew B., Trainic, Miri, Tressol, Marc, Trouble, Romain, Vardi, Assaf, Voolstra, Christian R., Wincker, Patrick, Agostini, Sylvain, Banaigs, Bernard, Boissin, Emilie, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre E., Gilson, Eric, Reynaud, Stephanie, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Thomas, Olivier P., Thurber, Rebecca Lisette Vega, Zoccola, Didier, Planes, Serge, Allemand, Denis, Karsenti, Eric, Planes, S., Banaig, B., Boissin, E., Iwankow, G., Allemand, D., Zoccola, D., Reynaud, S., Beraud, E., Djerbi, N., Forcioli, D., Furla, P., Gilson, E., Mcmind, R., Ottaviani, A., Rottinger, E., Rouan, A., Zamoum, T., Flume, B. C. C., Pogoreutz, C., Voolstra, C. R., Rothig, T., Ziegler, M., Paoli, L., Ruscheweyh, H-j, Salazar, G., Sunagawa, S., Flores, J. M., Koren, I, Trainic, M., Lang-yona, N., Vardi, A., Conan, P., Ghiglione, J-f, Pujo-pay, M., Galand, P. E., Hochart, C., Audrain, S., Bourgois, E., Hertau, M., Lancelot, J., Monmarche, D., Moulin, C., Moucherie, Y., Trouble, R., Boss, E., Bourdin, G., Haentjens, N., Karp-boss, L., Agostini, S., Mitsuhashi, G., Kitano, Y., Da Silva, O., Dolan, J. R., Gorsky, G., Lemee, R., Lombard, F., Pedrotti, M-l, Cronin, D., Sullivan, M., Armstrong, E., Aury, J-m, Barbe, V, Belser, C., Carradec, Q., Labadie, K., Le-hoang, J., Noel, B., Poulain, J., Wincker, P., Klinges, G., Vega-thunder, R., Bonnival, E., De Vargas, C., Henry, N., Marie, D., Romac, S., Pesant, S., Miguel-gorda, M., Thomas, O. P., Bowler, C., Friedrich, R., Cassar, N., Lin, Y., John, S. G., Kelly, R. L., Cohen, N. 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0106 biological sciences, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, lcsh:QH1-199.5, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, trace metals, Ocean Engineering, neuston, Aquatic Science, lcsh:General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Pacific ocean, taxonomy, neuston/plankton genomics/taxonomy/imaging, ddc:570, Ecosystem, 14. Life underwater, lcsh:Science, Reef, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, aerosols, NCP, IOP, microplastic, plankton genomics, [SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, ACL, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Community structure, imaging, Pelagic zone, Plankton, Inlet, neuston/plankton genomics/taxonomy/imaging, aerosols, NCP, IOP, trace metals, microplastic, [SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, [SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, 13. Climate action, lcsh:Q, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Neuston
Abstract

Interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere occur at the air-sea interface through the transfer of momentum, heat, gases and particulate matter, and through the impact of the upper-ocean biology on the composition and radiative properties of this boundary layer. The Tara Pacific expedition, launched in May 2016 aboard the schooner Tara, was a 29-month exploration with the dual goals to study the ecology of reef ecosystems along ecological gradients in the Pacific Ocean and to assess inter-island and open ocean surface plankton and neuston community structures. In addition, key atmospheric properties were measured to study links between the two boundary layer properties. A major challenge for the open ocean sampling was the lack of ship-time available for work at “stations”. The time constraint led us to develop new underway sampling approaches to optimize physical, chemical, optical, and genomic methods to capture the entire community structure of the surface layers, from viruses to metazoans in their oceanographic and atmospheric physicochemical context. An international scientific consortium was put together to analyze the samples, generate data, and develop datasets in coherence with the existing Tara Oceans database. Beyond adapting the extensive Tara Oceans sampling protocols for high-resolution underway sampling, the key novelties compared to Tara Oceans’ global assessment of plankton include the measurement of (i) surface plankton and neuston biogeography and functional diversity; (ii) bioactive trace metals distribution at the ocean surface and metal-dependent ecosystem structures; (iii) marine aerosols, including biological entities; (iv) geography, nature and colonization of microplastic; and (v) high-resolution underway assessment of net community production via equilibrator inlet mass spectrometry. We are committed to share the data collected during this expedition, making it an important resource important resource to address a variety of scientific questions. ISSN:2296-7745

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2019

37. Cross-Hemisphere Study Reveals Geographically Ubiquitous, Plastic-Specific Bacteria Emerging from the Rare and Unexplored Biosphere

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Scales, Brittan S., primary, Cable, Rachel N., additional, Duhaime, Melissa B., additional, Gerdts, Gunnar, additional, Fischer, Franziska, additional, Fischer, Dieter, additional, Mothes, Stephanie, additional, Hintzki, Lisa, additional, Moldaenke, Lynn, additional, Ruwe, Matthias, additional, Kalinowski, Jörn, additional, Kreikemeyer, Bernd, additional, Pedrotti, Maria-Luiza, additional, Gorsky, Gaby, additional, Elineau, Amanda, additional, Labrenz, Matthias, additional, and Oberbeckmann, Sonja, additional

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2021
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38. Human Health and Ocean Pollution

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Landrigan, Philip J., Stegeman, John J., Fleming, Lora E., Allemand, Denis, Anderson, Donald M., Backer, Lorraine C., Brucker-davis, Françoise, Chevalier, Nicolas, Corra, Lilian, Czerucka, Dorota, Bottein, Marie-yasmine Dechraoui, Demeneix, Barbara, Depledge, Michael, Deheyn, Dimitri D., Dorman, Charles J., Fénichel, Patrick, Fisher, Samantha, Gaill, Françoise, Galgani, Francois, Gaze, William H., Giuliano, Laura, Grandjean, Philippe, Hahn, Mark E., Hamdoun, Amro, Hess, Philipp, Judson, Bret, Laborde, Amalia, Mcglade, Jacqueline, Mu, Jenna, Mustapha, Adetoun, Neira, Maria, Noble, Rachel T., Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Reddy, Christopher, Rocklöv, Joacim, Scharler, Ursula M., Shanmugam, Hariharan, Taghian, Gabriella, Van De Water, Jeroen A. J. M., Vezzulli, Luigi, Weihe, Pál, Zeka, Ariana, Raps, Hervé, Rampal, Patrick, Landrigan, Philip J., Stegeman, John J., Fleming, Lora E., Allemand, Denis, Anderson, Donald M., Backer, Lorraine C., Brucker-davis, Françoise, Chevalier, Nicolas, Corra, Lilian, Czerucka, Dorota, Bottein, Marie-yasmine Dechraoui, Demeneix, Barbara, Depledge, Michael, Deheyn, Dimitri D., Dorman, Charles J., Fénichel, Patrick, Fisher, Samantha, Gaill, Françoise, Galgani, Francois, Gaze, William H., Giuliano, Laura, Grandjean, Philippe, Hahn, Mark E., Hamdoun, Amro, Hess, Philipp, Judson, Bret, Laborde, Amalia, Mcglade, Jacqueline, Mu, Jenna, Mustapha, Adetoun, Neira, Maria, Noble, Rachel T., Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Reddy, Christopher, Rocklöv, Joacim, Scharler, Ursula M., Shanmugam, Hariharan, Taghian, Gabriella, Van De Water, Jeroen A. J. M., Vezzulli, Luigi, Weihe, Pál, Zeka, Ariana, Raps, Hervé, and Rampal, Patrick

Abstract

Background: Pollution – unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity – is the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an estimated nine million premature deaths per year, enormous economic losses, erosion of human capital, and degradation of ecosystems. Ocean pollution is an important, but insufficiently recognized and inadequately controlled component of global pollution. It poses serious threats to human health and well-being. The nature and magnitude of these impacts are only beginning to be understood. Goals: (1) Broadly examine the known and potential impacts of ocean pollution on human health. (2) Inform policy makers, government leaders, international organizations, civil society, and the global public of these threats. (3) Propose priorities for interventions to control and prevent pollution of the seas and safeguard human health. Methods: Topic-focused reviews that examine the effects of ocean pollution on human health, identify gaps in knowledge, project future trends, and offer evidence-based guidance for effective intervention. Environmental Findings: Pollution of the oceans is widespread, worsening, and in most countries poorly controlled. It is a complex mixture of toxic metals, plastics, manufactured chemicals, petroleum, urban and industrial wastes, pesticides, fertilizers, pharmaceutical chemicals, agricultural runoff, and sewage. More than 80% arises from land-based sources. It reaches the oceans through rivers, runoff, atmospheric deposition and direct discharges. It is often heaviest near the coasts and most highly concentrated along the coasts of low- and middle-income countries. Plastic is a rapidly increasing and highly visible component of ocean pollution, and an estimated 10 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the seas each year. Mercury is the metal pollutant of greatest concern in the oceans; it is released from two main sources – coal combustion and small-scale gold mini

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2020
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39. Expanding Tara oceans protocols for underway, ecosystemic sampling of the ocean-atmosphere interface during Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018)

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Gorsky, Gabriel, Bourdin, Guillaume, Lombard, Fabien, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Audrain, Samuel, Bin, Nicolas, Boss, Emmanuel S., Bowler, Chris, Cassar, Nicolas, Caudan, Loic, Chabot, Genevieve, Cohen, Natalie R., Cron, Daniel, De Vargas, Colomban, Dolan, John R., Douville, Eric, Elineau, Amanda, Flores, J. Michel, Ghiglione, Jean-Francois, Haëntjens, Nils, Hertau, Martin, John, Seth G., Kelly, Rachel L., Koren, Ilan, Lin, Yajuan, Marie, Dominique, Moulin, Clémentine, Moucherie, Yohann, Pesant, Stephane, Picheral, Marc, Poulain, Julie, Pujo-Pay, Mireille, Reverdin, Gilles, Romac, Sarah, Sullivan, Mathew B., Trainic, Miri, Tressol, Marc, Troublé, Romain, Vardi, Assaf, Voolstra, Christian R., Wincker, Patrick, Agostini, Sylvain, Banaigs, Bernard, Boissin, Emilie, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre E., Gilson, Eric, Reynaud, Stephanie, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Thomas, Olivier P., Vega Thurber, Rebecca, Zoccola, Didier, Planes, Serge, Allemand, Denis, Karsenti, Eric, Gorsky, Gabriel, Bourdin, Guillaume, Lombard, Fabien, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Audrain, Samuel, Bin, Nicolas, Boss, Emmanuel S., Bowler, Chris, Cassar, Nicolas, Caudan, Loic, Chabot, Genevieve, Cohen, Natalie R., Cron, Daniel, De Vargas, Colomban, Dolan, John R., Douville, Eric, Elineau, Amanda, Flores, J. Michel, Ghiglione, Jean-Francois, Haëntjens, Nils, Hertau, Martin, John, Seth G., Kelly, Rachel L., Koren, Ilan, Lin, Yajuan, Marie, Dominique, Moulin, Clémentine, Moucherie, Yohann, Pesant, Stephane, Picheral, Marc, Poulain, Julie, Pujo-Pay, Mireille, Reverdin, Gilles, Romac, Sarah, Sullivan, Mathew B., Trainic, Miri, Tressol, Marc, Troublé, Romain, Vardi, Assaf, Voolstra, Christian R., Wincker, Patrick, Agostini, Sylvain, Banaigs, Bernard, Boissin, Emilie, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre E., Gilson, Eric, Reynaud, Stephanie, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Thomas, Olivier P., Vega Thurber, Rebecca, Zoccola, Didier, Planes, Serge, Allemand, Denis, and Karsenti, Eric

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© The Author(s), 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Gorsky, G., Bourdin, G., Lombard, F., Pedrotti, M. L., Audrain, S., Bin, N., Boss, E., Bowler, C., Cassar, N., Caudan, L., Chabot, G., Cohen, N. R., Cron, D., De Vargas, C., Dolan, J. R., Douville, E., Elineau, A., Flores, J. M., Ghiglione, J. F., Haentjens, N., Hertau, M., John, S. G., Kelly, R. L., Koren, I., Lin, Y., Marie, D., Moulin, C., Moucherie, Y., Pesant, S., Picheral, M., Poulain, J., Pujo-Pay, M., Reverdin, G., Romac, S., Sullivan, M. B., Trainic, M., Tressol, M., Trouble, R., Vardi, A., Voolstra, C. R., Wincker, P., Agostini, S., Banaigs, B., Boissin, E., Forcioli, D., Furla, P., Galand, P. E., Gilson, E., Reynaud, S., Sunagawa, S., Thomas, O. P., Thurber, R. L. V., Zoccola, D., Planes, S., Allemand, D., Karsenti, E. Expanding Tara oceans protocols for underway, ecosystemic sampling of the ocean-atmosphere interface during Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018). Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, (2019): 750, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00750., Interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere occur at the air-sea interface through the transfer of momentum, heat, gases and particulate matter, and through the impact of the upper-ocean biology on the composition and radiative properties of this boundary layer. The Tara Pacific expedition, launched in May 2016 aboard the schooner Tara, was a 29-month exploration with the dual goals to study the ecology of reef ecosystems along ecological gradients in the Pacific Ocean and to assess inter-island and open ocean surface plankton and neuston community structures. In addition, key atmospheric properties were measured to study links between the two boundary layer properties. A major challenge for the open ocean sampling was the lack of ship-time available for work at “stations”. The time constraint led us to develop new underway sampling approaches to optimize physical, chemical, optical, and genomic methods to capture the entire community structure of the surface layers, from viruses to metazoans in their oceanographic and atmospheric physicochemical context. An international scientific consortium was put together to analyze the samples, generate data, and develop datasets in coherence with the existing Tara Oceans database. Beyond adapting the extensive Tara Oceans sampling protocols for high-resolution underway sampling, the key novelties compared to Tara Oceans’ global assessment of plankton include the measurement of (i) surface plankton and neuston biogeography and functional diversity; (ii) bioactive trace metals distribution at the ocean surface and metal-dependent ecosystem structures; (iii) marine aerosols, including biological entities; (iv) geography, nature and colonization of microplastic; and (v) high-resolution underway assessment of net community production via equilibrator inlet mass spectrometry. We are committed to share the data collected during this expedition, making it an important resource important resource to address a variety of scientif, We are thankful for the commitment of the people and the following institutions, for their financial and scientific support that made this singular expedition possible: CNRS, PSL, CSM, EPHE, Genoscope/CEA, Inserm, Université Cote d’Azur, ANR, the Tara Ocean Foundation and its partners agnès b., UNESCO-IOC, the Veolia Environment Foundation, Région Bretagne, Serge Ferrari, Billerudkorsnas, Amerisource Bergen Company, Altran, Lorient Agglomeration, Oceans by Disney, the Prince Albert II de Monaco Foundation, L’Oréal, Biotherm, France Collectivités, Kankyo Station, Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM), Etienne Bourgois, the Tara Ocean Foundation teams and crew. Tara Pacific would not exist without the continuous support of the participating institutes. This study has been conducted using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information and Mercator Ocean products. We acknowledge funding from the Investissement d’avenir project France Génomique (ANR-10-INBS-09). FL is supported by Sorbonne Université, Institut Universitaire de France and the Fondation CA-PCA. The in-line and atmospheric optics dataset was collected and analyzed with support from NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry program under grants NNX13AE58G and NNX15AC08G to University of Maine. MF, IK, and AV are supported by a research grant from Scott Jordan and Gina Valdez, the De Botton for Marine Science, the Yeda-Sela center for Basic research, and the Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative (SAERI). NCo was supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation/SFARI (544236). NCa and YL were supported by the “Laboratoire d’Excellence” LabexMER (ANR-10-LABX-19) and co-funded by a grant from the French government under the program “Investissements d’Avenir.” The support of Pr. Alan Fuchs, President of CNRS, was crucial for the success of the surface sampling undertaken during the Tara Pacific expedition. We thank A. Gavilli from TECA Inc. France, and E. Tanguy and D. Delhommeau from the Institut de

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2020

41. Human Health and Ocean Pollution

Author

Landrigan, Philip J., primary, Stegeman, John J., additional, Fleming, Lora E., additional, Allemand, Denis, additional, Anderson, Donald M., additional, Backer, Lorraine C., additional, Brucker-Davis, Françoise, additional, Chevalier, Nicolas, additional, Corra, Lilian, additional, Czerucka, Dorota, additional, Bottein, Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui, additional, Demeneix, Barbara, additional, Depledge, Michael, additional, Deheyn, Dimitri D., additional, Dorman, Charles J., additional, Fénichel, Patrick, additional, Fisher, Samantha, additional, Gaill, Françoise, additional, Galgani, François, additional, Gaze, William H., additional, Giuliano, Laura, additional, Grandjean, Philippe, additional, Hahn, Mark E., additional, Hamdoun, Amro, additional, Hess, Philipp, additional, Judson, Bret, additional, Laborde, Amalia, additional, McGlade, Jacqueline, additional, Mu, Jenna, additional, Mustapha, Adetoun, additional, Neira, Maria, additional, Noble, Rachel T., additional, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, additional, Reddy, Christopher, additional, Rocklöv, Joacim, additional, Scharler, Ursula M., additional, Shanmugam, Hariharan, additional, Taghian, Gabriella, additional, Van de Water, Jeroen A. J. M., additional, Vezzulli, Luigi, additional, Weihe, Pál, additional, Zeka, Ariana, additional, Raps, Hervé, additional, and Rampal, Patrick, additional

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2020
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43. Microplastics in the oceans: the solutions lie on land

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Abreu, André and Pedrotti, Maria Luiza

Subjects
lcsh:Social Sciences, lcsh:H, microplastics, plastic bag, pollution, Mediterranean, oceans
Abstract

There are 5,250 billion* plastic particles floating on the surface on the world’s seas and oceans, equivalent to 268,940 metric tons of waste. These fragments move with the currents before washing up on beaches, islands, coral atolls or one of the five great ocean gyres. As early as 2010, Tara Expeditions Foundation was one of the first bodies to undertake a scientific examination of microplastic pollution in the oceans, an issue previously subject to very limited scientific study. Tara wanted to use its ocean study programs to understand the impact of this pollution on marine life. In 2014, Tara conducted a seven-month expedition in the Mediterranean Sea to improve understanding of the consequences in a semi-enclosed sea. The expedition highlighted the fact that microplastics are heavily colonized by bacteria. Research into sea-borne plastic has since become an integral part of Tara’s work. Excessive consumption of plastics, and the waste this generates, has a massive impact on the natural world and the marine environment in particular. In this knowledge, Tara conducts scientific studies to improve our understanding of the risks to humans and marine ecosystems. Faced with the gravity of the situation Tara is convinced that, if we are to avoid plastics ending up in the oceans, the solutions lie on land. This involves a collective re-engineering of how we produce and consume, for example banning single-use plastic bags.* Jambeck, J.R., Geyer, R., Wilcox, C., Siegler, T.R., Perryman, M., Andrady, A., Narayan, R., Law, K.L., 2015. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean. Science 347, 768–771. doi:10.1126/science.1260352

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2019

44. Standardised protocol for monitoring microplastics in seawater. Deliverable 4.1

Author

Gago, Jesus, Filgueiras, Ana, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Caetano, Miguel, and Frias, João

Subjects
Plastic debris
Abstract

Microplastic litter is an omnipresent pollutant in marine systems across the globe; spread out from the water surface to benthic sediments. Furthermore, the current trend of microplastic accumulation in the marine environment will enable these particles to remain there for centuries to come, due to their persistence. Nevertheless, the impact of plastic particles on aquatic ecosystems is far from being understood. The consequences are estimated to be severe as microplastics can accumulate persistent organic pollutants from the environment and release toxic additives into the environment, which might pose a threat to marine organisms upon ingestion. Although microplastics are recognised as a contaminant of emerging concern in the environment, currently neither sampling, extraction, purification nor identification approaches are standardised, making microplastic studies difficult to compare, if at all, possible. Harmonization of protocols for determination of plastic particles is urgently needed in order to overcome this gap. The JPI-Oceans BASEMAN project is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative research project that aims to overcome this problem and to undertake a profound and detailed comparison and evaluation of all approaches from sampling to identification of microplastics. The two overall goals of the project are the “The validation and harmonisation of analytical methods” which is indispensable for the “Identification and quantification of MP”. The BASEMAN project will try to answer questions like the abundance and distribution of microplastics in the environment. For this purpose, tools and operational measures will be proposed so that they allow evaluation Member States’ compliance with existing and future monitoring requirements. This document regards microplastic sampling, processing and analysis for surface and water column seawater samples. Published Contributors to the report: Ana Filgueiras*, Jesus Gago*, Maria Luiza Pedrotti*, Giuseppe Suaria, Valentina Tirelli, José Andrade, João Frias*, Róisín Nash, Ian O’Connor, Clara Lopes, Miguel Caetano*, Joana Raimundo, Olga Carretero, Lucía Viñas, Joana Antunes, Filipa Bessa, Paula Sobral, Alenka Goruppi, Stefano Aliani, Luca Palazzo, Giuseppe Andrea de Lucia, Andrea Camedda, Soledad Muniategui, Gloria Grueiro, Veronica Fernandez, Gunnar Gerdts. Refereed Current 14.1 TRL 8 Actual system completed and "mission qualified" through test and demonstration in an operational environment (ground or space) Standard Operating Procedure

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2019

45. Harmonized protocol for monitoring microplastics in biota. Deliverable 4.3

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Bessa, Filipa, Frias, João, Kögel, Tanja, Lusher, Amy, Andrade, Jose Manuel, Antunes, Joana, Sobral, Paula, Pagter, Elena, Nash, Róisín, O’Connor, Ian, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Kerros, Maria Emmanuelle, León, Victor, Tirelli, Valentina, Suaria, Giuseppe, Lopes, Clara, Raimundo, Joana, Caetano, Miguel, Gago, Jesús, Viñas, Lucía, Carretero, Olga, Magnusson, Kerstin, Granberg, Maria, Dris, Rachid, Fischer, Marten, Scholz-Böttcher, Barbara, Muniategui, Soledad, Grueiro, Gloria, Fernández, Verónica, Palazzo, Luca, de Lucia, Andrea, Camedda, Andrea, Avio, Carlo Giacomo, Gorbi, Stefania, Pittura, Lucia, Regoli, Francesco, and Gerdts, Gunnar

Subjects
Plastic litter, Microplastics, Marine debris, Environment::Anthropogenic contamination [Parameter Discipline], Environment::Human activity [Parameter Discipline], Plastic debris
Abstract

Microplastic pollution is presently considered a high concern topic by scientists, policy makers, governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations and the general public. Microplastics are highly widespread in all environmental compartments (e.g. air, water, sediments and biota) and increasing empirical evidence points towards potential negative effects on organisms, both at an individual scale and potentially at population and ecosystem level, as well as effects on human health. To understand the levels and effects of microplastics on biota, it is important to conduct risk assessment evaluations based on realistic microplastic concentration exposure scenarios which are targeted at identifying the effects of microplastics on species and ecosystems. Realistic data on exposures should derive from reliable monitoring data on the uptake and accumulation of microplastics in biota. Presently, there is sufficient empirical data available to underpin arguments to suggest species that could serve as suitable candidates for monitoring microplastics in the environment. Comparison of available data is still limited due to the use of different analytical methods and reporting units, nonetheless researchers have been providing recommendations and frameworks to surpass these limitations. Many methods initially focused on particles

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2019

46. Harmonized protocol for monitoring microplastics in biota

Author

Bessa, Filipa, Frias, João, Knögel, Tanja, Lusher, Amy, Andrade, Jose, Antunes, Joana C., Sobral, Paula, Pagter, Elena, Nash, Roisin, O'Connor, Ian, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Keros, Emmanuelle, León, Víctor Manuel, Tirelli, Valentina, Suaria, Giuseppe, Lopes, Clara, Raimundo, Joana, Caetano, Miguel, J. Gago, Viñas, Lucía, Carretero, Olga, Magnusson, Kerstin, Granberg, Maria, Dris, Rachid, Fischer, Marten, Scholtz-Bottcher, Barbara, Muniategui-Lorenzo, Soledad, Grueiro, Gloria, Fernández-González, Verónica, Palazzo, Luca, Camedda, Andrea, Lucia, Giuseppe Andrea De, Avio, Carlo Giacomo, Gorbi, Stefania, Pittura, Lucia, Regoli, Francesco, and Gerdts, Gunnar

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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2019
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47. Microplastics in Mediterranean Sea: A protocol to robustly assess contamination characteristics

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Kedzierski, Mikael, Villain, Jonathan, Falcou-prefol, Mathilde, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, Henry, Maryvonne, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Bruzaud, Stephane, Kedzierski, Mikael, Villain, Jonathan, Falcou-prefol, Mathilde, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, Henry, Maryvonne, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, and Bruzaud, Stephane

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The study of microplastic pollution involves multidisciplinary analyses on a large number of microplastics. Therefore, providing an overview of plastic pollution is time consuming and, despite high throughput analyses, remains a major challenge. The objective of this study is to propose a protocol to determine how many microplastics must be analyzed to give a representative view of the particle size distribution and chemical nature, and calculate the associated margin error. Based on microplastic data from Tara Mediterranean campaign, this approach is explained through different examples. In this particular case, the results show that only 3% of the collected microplastics need to be analyzed to give a precise view on the scale of the North West Mediterranean Basin (error <5%), and 17.7% to give an overview manta per manta (error <10%). This approach could be an important practical contribution to microplastic studies.

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2019
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48. A machine learning algorithm for high throughput identification of FTIR spectra: Application on microplastics collected in the Mediterranean Sea

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Kedzierski, Mikaël, Falcou-préfol, Mathilde, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, Henry, Maryvonne, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Bruzaud, Stéphane, Kedzierski, Mikaël, Falcou-préfol, Mathilde, Kerros, Marie Emmanuelle, Henry, Maryvonne, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, and Bruzaud, Stéphane

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The development of methods to automatically determine the chemical nature of microplastics by FTIR-ATR spectra is an important challenge. A machine learning method, named k-nearest neighbors classification, has been applied on spectra of microplastics collected during Tara Expedition in the Mediterranean Sea (2014). To realize these tests, a learning database composed of 969 microplastic spectra has been created. Results show that the machine learning process is very efficient to identify spectra of classical polymers such as poly(ethylene), but also that the learning database must be enhanced with less common microplastic spectra. Finally, this method has been applied on more than 4000 spectra of unidentified microplastics. The verification protocol showed less than 10% difference in the results between the proposed automated method and a human expertise, 75% of which can be very easily corrected.

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2019
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49. Standardised protocol for monitoring microplastics in sediments May 2018

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Frias, J., Pagter, E., Nash, R., O'Connor, I., Carretero, O., Filgueiras, A., Viñas, l., Gago, J., Antunes, J., Bessa, F., Sobral, P., Goruppi, A., Tirelli, V., Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Suaria, G., Aliani, S., Lopes, C., Raimundo, J., Caetano, M., Gerdts, G., Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche-sur-mer (OOVM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and D4.2 BASEMAN report

Subjects
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDE]Environmental Sciences
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2018

50. Standardised protocol for monitoring microplastics in sediments. Deliverable 4.2

Author

Frias, João, Pagter, Elena, Nash, Roisin, O'Connor, Ian, Carretero, Olga, Filgueiras, Ana, Viñas, Lucía, Gago, J., Antunes, Joana, Bessa, Filipa, Sobral, Paula, Goruppi, Alenka, Tirelli, Valentina, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Suaria, Giuseppe, Aliani, Stefano, Lopes, Clara, Raimundo, Joana, Caetano, Miguel, and Gerdts, Gunnar

Subjects
Microplastics, Environment::Anthropogenic contamination [Parameter Discipline], Plastic debris, BASEMAN Project
Abstract

Marine anthropogenic litter has long been recognised as an emerging pollutant of global concern. Its ubiquitous distribution and its direct and indirect impacts on aquatic ecosystems, marine fauna and local economies have been recently highlighted by several studies and international organisations around the world. Although comprised of different materials, plastic constitutes the most abundant fraction reported in worldwide surveys, with percentages that are variable from region to region. Among plastic materials, microplastics (herein MPs), represent a huge concern due to their impacts resulting from fragmentation under weathering conditions (e.g. solar radiation, water temperature and abrasion processes) and from their ability to adsorb persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals (PBTC) (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls - PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – PAHs) and trace elements (e.g. Cu, Zn, etc.). In addition to these impacts, recent studies have also reported the potential for MPs to be easily mistaken as food particles and subsequently ingested by a wide range of organisms throughout the different environmental compartments (e.g. sediment, water, air). Under the scope of the JPI-Oceans, BASEMAN is an international and interdisciplinary collaborative research project that aims to overcome the lack of standardised methodologies through a profound and detailed comparison and evaluation of all approaches from sampling to identification of MPs. The two overall goals of the project are firstly “The validation and harmonisation of analytical methods” which is indispensable for the second goal of “Identification and quantification of MPs”. Based on these goals and with the overall aim of creating a standardised methodology to allow microplastics harmonised long-term monitoring in Europe, the BASEMAN project provides a set of recommended protocols to allow comparisons among studies. With this in mind, the protocols will focus on sampling, processing and analysis of MPs in samples from different environmental compartments, specifically addressing MPs from intertidal and subtidal sediments. This protocol is aimed at improving sampling, processing and MPs data collection quality while also allowing comparison amongst different studies throughout Europe. Published Refereed Current 14.1 TRL 8 Actual system completed and "mission qualified" through test and demonstration in an operational environment (ground or space) Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc) Standard Operating Procedure

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2018

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