A baseline assessment of beach debris and tar contamination in Bonaire, Southeastern Caribbean.
Mar Pollut Bull
; 71(1-2): 325-9, 2013 Jun 15.
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Data on beach debris and tar contamination is provided for 21 natural beach sites in Bonaire, Southeastern Caribbean. Transects amounting to a combined length of 991 m were sampled March-May 2011 and a total of 8960 debris items were collected. Highest debris and tar contamination were found on the beaches of the windward east-coast of the island where geometric mean debris concentrations (± approx. 70% confidence limits) were 115±58 items m(-1) and 3408±1704 g m(-1) of beach front. These levels are high compared to data collected almost 20 years earlier on the nearby island of Curaçao. Tar contamination levels averaged 223 g m(-1) on windward beaches. Contamination levels for leeward west-coast beaches were generally two orders of magnitude less than windward beaches.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Alcatrões
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Resíduos
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Poluentes da Água
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Monitoramento Ambiental
País/Região como assunto:
Antillas holandesas
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Caribe ingles
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Mar Pollut Bull
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Holanda
País de publicação:
Reino Unido