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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

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

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

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

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

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Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

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Ocean's Deep, Dark Trenches to Get Their Moment in the Spotlight

(2012) J. J. Lee   SCIENCE

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

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Bathymetric patterns of meiofaunal abundance and biomass associated with the Kuril and Ryukyu trenches, western North Pacific Ocean

(2010) Makoto Itoh et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Macroplastics at sea around Antarctica

(2010) David K.A. Barnes et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

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

Assessing marine debris in deep seafloor habitats off California

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