Landward zones of mangroves are sinks for both land and water borne anthropogenic debris

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 818; p. 151809
• Main Authors: Luo, Ying Y., Vorsatz, Lyle D., Not, Christelle, Cannicci, Stefano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 20.04.2022
• Subjects: bamboos; China; Ecosystem; environment; Environmental Monitoring; glass; Hong Kong; Macroplastics; Mangrove management; marine debris; Marine litter; Plastic pollution; Plastics; pollution; rivers; Waste Products - analysis; Water; wood; Hong Kong; China; Macroplastics; Mangrove management; Hong Kong; Marine litter; Plastic pollution

The hotspots for mangrove diversity and plastic emissions from rivers overlap in Asia, however very few studies have investigated anthropogenic marine debris (AMD) pollution in these threatened coastal ecosystems. Despite Hong Kong's position at the mouth of the Pearl River, a major source of m...