Marine litter in submarine canyons: A systematic review and critical synthesis

Ocean sediments as the global sink for marine micro‐ and mesoplastics

(2022) Cecilia Martin et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Transport and accumulation of plastic litter in submarine canyons—The role of gravity flows

(2021) Guangfa Zhong et al.   GEOLOGY

Large Plastic Debris Dumps: New Biodiversity Hot Spots Emerging on the Deep-Sea Floor

(2021) Xikun Song et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Anthropogenic pollution in deep-marine sedimentary systems—A geological perspective on the plastic problem

(2021) I.A. Kane et al.   GEOLOGY

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

(2021) Matthew J Page et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Distributions of microplastics and larger anthropogenic debris in Norfolk Canyon, Baltimore Canyon, and the adjacent continental slope (Western North Atlantic Margin, U.S.A.)

(2021) Ellie S. Jones et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

(2020) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Bottom-trawl catch composition in a highly polluted coastal area reveals multifaceted native biodiversity and complex communities of fouling organisms on litter discharge

(2020) Fabio Crocetta et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

The impact of marine litter from fish aggregation devices on vulnerable marine benthic habitats of the central Mediterranean Sea

(2020) Pierpaolo Consoli et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Assessment and distribution of seafloor litter on the deep Ligurian continental shelf and shelf break (NW Mediterranean Sea)

(2020) Francesco Enrichetti et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The MEDITS trawl survey specifications in an ecosystem approach to fishery management

(2020) Maria Teresa Spedicato et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

Spatial distribution of marine macro-litter on the seafloor in the northern Mediterranean Sea: the MEDITS initiative

(2020) Maria Teresa Spedicato et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

The key role of canyons in funnelling litter to the deep sea: a study of the Gioia Canyon (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea)

(2020) Martina Pierdomenico et al.   Anthropocene

Deep-sea litter in the Gulf of Cadiz (Northeastern Atlantic, Spain)

(2020) Ariadna Mecho et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Seafloor microplastic hotspots controlled by deep-sea circulation

(2020) Ian A. Kane et al.   SCIENCE

The first report of deep-sea litter in the South-Western Caribbean Sea

(2020) Camilo M. Botero et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Opinion: We need better data about the environmental persistence of plastic goods

(2020) Collin P. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal Trends in Marine Litter at Three Stations of the HAUSGARTEN Observatory in the Arctic Deep Sea

(2020) Karla B. Parga Martínez et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Deep-Sea Debris in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean

(2020) Diva J. Amon et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of Marine Litter on Mediterranean Reef Systems: From Shallow to Deep Waters

(2020) Michela Angiolillo et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

The current state of marine debris on the seafloor in offshore area around Japan

(2020) Mao Kuroda et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A harmonized and coordinated assessment of the abundance and composition of seafloor litter in the Adriatic-Ionian macroregion (Mediterranean Sea)

(2019) Tomaso Fortibuoni et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Assessment of seabed litter in the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) over six years

(2019) P. Strafella et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter on the Baltic seafloor collected by the international fish-trawl survey

(2019) Yury Zablotski et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Large debris dumps in the northern South China Sea

(2019) X. Peng et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter from fishery activities in the Western Mediterranean sea: The impact of entanglement on marine animal forests

(2019) Pierpaolo Consoli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dispersion, Accumulation, and the Ultimate Fate of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Environments: A Review and Future Directions

(2019) Ian A. Kane et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Seafloor litter from the continental shelf and canyons in French Mediterranean Water: Distribution, typologies and trends

(2019) O. Gerigny et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Long-term aquaria study suggests species-specific responses of two cold-water corals to macro-and microplastics exposure

(2019) Vincent Mouchi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A trawl survey of seafloor macrolitter on the South African continental shelf

(2019) Peter G. Ryan et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Coral forests and Derelict Fishing Gears in submarine canyon systems of the Ligurian Sea

(2019) M. Giusti et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Spatial and temporal distribution of marine litter on the seafloor of the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean Sea)

(2019) Carme Alomar et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Are FADs a significant source of marine litter? Assessment of released debris and mitigation strategy in the Mediterranean sea

(2019) Mauro Sinopoli et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Marine litter in an EBSA (Ecologically or Biologically Significant Area) of the central Mediterranean Sea: Abundance, composition, impact on benthic species and basis for monitoring entanglement

(2018) Pierpaolo Consoli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Marine litter at the seafloor – Abundance and composition in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea

(2018) Ulrike Kammann et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter on the seafloor of the southern Baltic

(2018) Barbara Urban-Malinga et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Canyons pride and prejudice: Exploring the submarine canyon research landscape, a history of geographic and thematic bias

(2018) F.L. Matos et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Below the surface: Twenty-five years of seafloor litter monitoring in coastal seas of North West Europe (1992–2017)

(2018) T. Maes et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Amount and distribution of benthic marine litter along Sardinian fishing grounds (CW Mediterranean Sea)

(2018) Andrea Alvito et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Dumping to the abyss: single-use marine litter invading bathyal plains of the Sardinian margin (Tyrrhenian Sea)

(2018) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine animal forests as useful indicators of entanglement by marine litter

(2018) Francois Galgani et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Composition and abundance of benthic marine litter in a coastal area of the central Mediterranean Sea

(2018) Pierpaolo Consoli et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Distribution and composition of benthic marine litter on the shelf of Antalya in the eastern Mediterranean

(2018) M. Tunca Olguner et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Identification, recovery, and impact of ghost fishing gear in the Mullica River-Great Bay Estuary (New Jersey, USA): Stakeholder-driven restoration for smaller-scale systems

(2018) Mark Sullivan et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial and temporal trends of marine litter in the Spanish Mediterranean seafloor

(2018) Santiago García-Rivera et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

(2018) Alberto Martín-Martín et al.   Journal of Informetrics

Megafauna distribution along active submarine canyons of the central Mediterranean: Relationships with environmental variables

(2018) M. Pierdomenico et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Impact of fishing activities on different coralligenous assemblages of Gulf of Naples (Italy)

(2017) Federica Ferrigno et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat

(2017) Carlo Giacomo Avio et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Composition, spatial distribution and sources of macro-marine litter on the Gulf of Alicante seafloor (Spanish Mediterranean)

(2017) Santiago García-Rivera et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Submarine canyons along the upper Sardinian slope (Central Western Mediterranean) as repositories for derelict fishing gears

(2017) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The first assessment of marine debris in a Site of Community Importance in the north-western Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)

(2017) Valentina Melli et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial distribution of marine debris on the seafloor of Moroccan waters

(2017) S. Loulad et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter on the seafloor of the Faial-Pico Passage, Azores Archipelago

(2017) Yasmina Rodríguez et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter in the Nordic Seas: Distribution composition and abundance

(2017) Lene Buhl-Mortensen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Suitability of Google Scholar as a source of scientific information and as a source of data for scientific evaluation—Review of the Literature

(2017) Gali Halevi et al.   Journal of Informetrics

Bottom-trawling along submarine canyons impacts deep sedimentary regimes

(2017) Sarah Paradis et al.   Scientific Reports

The Ryukyu Trench may function as a “depocenter” for anthropogenic marine litter

(2016) Motohiro Shimanaga et al.   JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Spatial and temporal analysis of litter in the Celtic Sea from Groundfish Survey data: Lessons for monitoring

(2016) M. Moriarty et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Seabed litter composition, distribution and sources in the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean)

(2016) Giulia Pasquini et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

A new methodology for comparing Google Scholar and Scopus

(2016) Henk F. Moed et al.   Journal of Informetrics

Cold-Water Corals and Anthropogenic Impacts in La Fonera Submarine Canyon Head, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

(2016) Galderic Lastras et al.   PLoS One

Lost fishing gear and litter at Gorringe Bank (NE Atlantic)

(2015) Rui P. Vieira et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Changes in abundance and composition of anthropogenic marine debris on the continental slope off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, after the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2015) Tomoaki Goto et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter in bottom trawls off the Portuguese coast

(2015) Diogo Neves et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial pattern and weight of seabed marine litter in the northern and central Adriatic Sea

(2015) P. Strafella et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter in the upper São Vicente submarine canyon (SW Portugal): Abundance, distribution, composition and fauna interactions

(2015) Frederico Oliveira et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Distribution and assessment of marine debris in the deep Tyrrhenian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea, Italy)

(2015) Michela Angiolillo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter on the floor of deep submarine canyons of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: The role of hydrodynamic processes

(2015) Xavier Tubau et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Fishing impact on deep Mediterranean rocky habitats as revealed by ROV investigation

(2014) Marzia Bo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Geomorphology of the oceans

(2014) P.T. Harris et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Marine debris in bottom trawl catches and their effects on the selectivity grids in the north eastern Mediterranean

(2014) Ahmet Raif Eryaşar et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Deepwater marine litter densities and composition from submersible video-transects around the ABC-islands, Dutch Caribbean

(2014) A.O. Debrot et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A comparative study of marine litter on the seafloor of coastal areas in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas

(2014) C. Ioakeimidis et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea

(2014) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

(2014) Christopher K. Pham et al.   PLoS One

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Local variation in the distribution of benthic megafauna species associated with cold-water coral reefs on the Norwegian margin

(2013) Autun Purser et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Debris in the deep: Using a 22-year video annotation database to survey marine litter in Monterey Canyon, central California, USA

(2013) Kyra Schlining et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Abundance of litter on Condor seamount (Azores, Portugal, Northeast Atlantic)

(2013) C.K. Pham et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Towards a new and integrated approach to submarine canyon research

(2013) Veerle A.I. Huvenne et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts

(2013) M-C. Fabri et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Marine litter from circalittoral and deeper bottoms off the Maltese islands (Central Mediterranean)

(2013) R. MIFSUD et al.   MEDITERRANEAN MARINE SCIENCE

Effects of natural and anthropogenic processes in the distribution of marine litter in the deep Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Eva Ramirez-Llodra et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Baseline study of the distribution of marine debris on soft-bottom habitats associated with trawling grounds in the northern Mediterranean

(2013) Pilar Sánchez et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

The Complex Interaction between Marine Debris and Toxic Chemicals in the Ocean

(2012) Richard E. Engler   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

(2012) Melanie Bergmann et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Anthropogenic “Litter” and macrophyte detritus in the deep Northern Gulf of Mexico

(2012) Chih-Lin Wei et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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(2012) Olgac Guven et al.   Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Litter in submarine canyons off the west coast of Portugal

(2011) Gideon Mordecai et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Fishery failure, unemployed commercial fishers, and lost blue crab pots: An unexpected success story

(2011) Kirk Havens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins

(2011) Peter T. Harris et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea

(2011) Eva Ramirez-Llodra et al.   PLoS One

Abundance and composition of solid waste materials on the western part of the Turkish Black Sea seabed

(2010) Eda N. Topçu et al.   AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM HEALTH & MANAGEMENT

Distribution and abundance of anthropogenic marine debris along the shelf and slope of the US West Coast

(2010) Aimee A. Keller et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Submarine canyons: hotspots of benthic biomass and productivity in the deep sea

(2010) F. C. De Leo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessing marine debris in deep seafloor habitats off California

(2009) Diana L. Watters et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Benthic marine litter in four Gulfs in Greece, Eastern Mediterranean; abundance, composition and source identification

(2007) Andreas Koutsodendris et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Methods applied in studies of benthic marine debris

(2007) Angela Spengler et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN