Source, fate and effects of plastic litters in the European land-sea continuum
Published in Earth & Environment
Bringing together scientists from different fields of expertise, so as to deepen our understanding of plastic pollution and conduct reliable ecological risk assessments across ecosystem boundaries, this special issue reports the findings from the Tara Microplastics expedition (2014-2019) as well various groundbreaking results, including a citizen science project 'Plastique à la loupe' involving schoolchildren, and aimed at comparing for the first time the distribution of different litter sizes (macrolitter and meso- and microplastics) over 81 riverbanks and 66 coastal beaches sampled in France (2019-2021).
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Illustration: The route of the research vessel Tara for 7 months crossing 9 of the major rivers in Europe. Figure 1 Right of Ghiglione, JF., Barbe, V., Bruzaud, S. et al. Mission Tara Microplastics: a holistic set of protocols and data resources for the field investigation of plastic pollution along the land-sea continuum in Europe. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26883-9 CC BY 4.0 International - Copyright © 2023, The Author(s)
Trained as a physicist, I have worked from more than 18 years for IOP Publishing from the UK (Bristol) and Germany (Berlin) before moving back to France and joining EDP Sciences, a small society publisher based in the south of Paris, in 2019. I started my current position at Springer Nature in April 2024.
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