The global biological microplastic particle sink

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

Marine debris, mostly consisting of plastic, is a global problem, negatively impacting wildlife, tourism and shipping. However, despite the durability of plastic, and the exponential increase in its production, monitoring data show limited evidence of concomitant increasing concentrations in marine habitats. There appears to be a considerable proportion of the manufactured plastic that is unacc...

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris Lucy

Lucy C. Woodall1 , Anna Sanchez-Vidal2, Miquel Canals2, Gordon L. J. Paterson1, Rachel Coppock3, Victoria Sleight3, Antonio Calafat2, Alex D. Rogers4, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy5 and Richard C. Thompson3 1Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK 2GRC Geociències Marines, Departament d’ Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Universita...

Biological control of the terrestrial carbon sink

This lecture reviews the past (since 1964 when the International Biological Program began) and the future of our understanding of terrestrial carbon fluxes with focus on pho-tosynthesis, respiration, primary-, ecosystem-, and biome-productivity. Photosynthetic capacity is related to the nitrogen concentration of leaves, but the capacity is only rarely reached under field conditions. Average rat...

Microplastic in Danish wastewater

SINK SINK SOURCE SINK SINK Channel Process C Process

The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine, or even on the Internet programmed in MPI, applications are evolving into sets of cooperating components scattered across diverse computational elements. These components may run on diierent operating systems and har...