Brief description
This data describes the characterisation and estimated concentration of marine plastics in waters around Australia from surface net tows. The marine plastics recorded were predominantly small fragments (‘‘microplastics’’) resulting from the breakdown of larger objects made of polyethylene and polypropylene (e.g. packaging and fishing items). This data accompanies the following publication: Reisser J, Shaw J, Wilcox C, Hardesty BD, Proietti M, et al. (2013) Marine Plastic Pollution in Waters around Australia: Characteristics, Concentrations, and Pathways. PLoS ONE 8(11): e80466. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080466Lineage
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CreditThe University of Western Australia (UWA)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRO)
Australian Marine National Facility
Austral Fisheries
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Shell Social Investment Program (BDH and CW)
Data time period: 2013-09-02 to 2013-09-08
Data time period: 2011-06-10 to 2012-08-25
text: westlimit=113.91275; southlimit=-43.5773; eastlimit=176.50677; northlimit=-10.74822
text: uplimit=4870; downlimit=13
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(DATA ACCESS collection 1 [Australia-wide] - via figshare)
doi :
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.865018.v3
(DATA ACCESS collection 2 [additional data for north-west Marine Region] - via figshare)
doi :
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.818765.v4
(SUPPLEMENTARY DATA ACCESS - information related to the types of marine plastics collected during the study [direct download])
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