DOI Details
- Identifier:
- 10.13120/2619E339-4F1B-4E58-81BF-28F1411DA968
- Creators:
- IFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems for the SEA (SISMER) https://edmo.seadatanet.org/report/486 EMODnet Chemistry
- Ifremer, VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring) https://edmo.seadatanet.org/report/1838 EMODnet Chemistry
- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography https://edmo.seadatanet.org/report/120 EMODnet Chemistry
- Titles:
- Beach Litter - Composition of litter according to material categories in percent normalized per beach per year - Other sources 2001/2020 v2021
- Publisher:
- EMODnet Chemistry
- PublicationYear:
- 2021
- Subjects:
- /Human Activities/Pollution
- Oceanographic geographical features
- Litter abundance and type
- Beach litter abundance
- Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
- North Sea
- Arctic Ocean
- Black Sea
- Baltic Sea
- Mediterranean Sea
- EMODnet Chemistry
- sediment
- Marine litter
- Beach litter
- Maps
- Oceanography
- Contributors:
- Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience SeaDataNet
- Aarhus University,Danish Centre for Environment and Energy SeaDataNet
- Aegean Greeners SeaDataNet
- Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation SeaDataNet
- Asociación Vertidos Cero SeaDataNet
- Black Sea NGO Network SeaDataNet
- Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Division of Marine Biology and Ecology SeaDataNet
- Disciplinary Centre of Marine Research and Environmental SeaDataNet
- ECAT-Environmental Center for Administration & Technology SeaDataNet
- Estonian Green Movement SeaDataNet
- European Environment Agency SeaDataNet
- Foundation for Environmental Education, Latvia SeaDataNet
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography SeaDataNet
- Hold Danmark Rent SeaDataNet
- Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia SeaDataNet
- Institute of Marine Biology (IMBK) SeaDataNet
- Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University SeaDataNet
- Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences SeaDataNet
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea SeaDataNet
- Isotech Ltd Environmental Research and Consultancy SeaDataNet
- Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Science and Management SeaDataNet
- Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA (UNESCO) SeaDataNet
- KIMO International Secretariat SeaDataNet
- Legambiente SeaDataNet
- Marine Conservation Society SeaDataNet
- Maritime Training Center for Pollution Prevention, Safety at Sea and Environmental Awareness SeaDataNet
- Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development SeaDataNet
- National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" SeaDataNet
- National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology SeaDataNet
- Non-governmental environmental organization "Mare Nostrum" SeaDataNet
- Norwegian Environment Agency SeaDataNet
- OceanCare SeaDataNet
- Plastic Change SeaDataNet
- Portuguese Association for Marine Litter, APLM SeaDataNet
- State Oceanographic Institute SeaDataNet
- Surfers Against Sewage SeaDataNet
- Surfrider Foundation Europe SeaDataNet
- Turkish Marine Research Foundation SeaDataNet
- Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea SeaDataNet
- eXXpedition SeaDataNet
- Dates:
- 2001-01-01/2020-04-22
- Language:
- en
- ResourceType:
- Dataset
- RelatedIdentifiers:
- https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/repository/maps/litter/bl_materialcategories_other.zip
- https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/products/catalogue#/metadata/2619e339-4f1b-4e58-81bf-28f1411da968
- https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/repository/images/bounding_box_2619e339-4f1b-4e58-81bf-28f1411da968.png
- https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/repository/images/spatial_distribution_2619e339-4f1b-4e58-81bf-28f1411da968.png
- Sizes:
- 0.131 MB
- Formats:
- application/zip including 4 files: .dbf, .prj, .shp and .shx
- Version:
- 1.0
- RightsList:
- Open Access
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Public domain and freely available for all users, following the specified citation format.
- Descriptions:
- This visualization product displays marine macro-litter (> 2.5cm) material categories percentage per beach per year from non-MSFD monitoring surveys, research & cleaning operations.<br /><br />EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of beach litter have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB).<br />The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols and reference lists used on a European scale.<br /><br /><br />Preliminary processing were necessary to harmonize all the data:<br /> - Exclusion of OSPAR 1000 protocol: in order to follow the approach of OSPAR that it is not including these data anymore in the monitoring;<br /> - Selection of surveys from non-MSFD monitoring, cleaning and research operations;<br /> - Exclusion of beaches without coordinates;<br /> - Exclusion of surveys without associated length;<br /> - Some litter types like organic litter, small fragments (paraffin and wax; items > 2.5cm) and pollutants have been removed. The list of selected items is attached to this metadata. This list was created using EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines and EU Threshold Value for Macro Litter on Coastlines from JRC (these two documents are attached to this metadata);<br /> - Exclusion of the "feaces" category: it concerns more exactly the items of dog excrements in bags of the OSPAR (item code: 121) and ITA (item code: IT59) reference lists;<br /> - Normalization of survey lengths to 100m & 1 survey / year: in some case, the survey length was not 100m, so in order to be able to compare the abundance of litter from different beaches a normalization is applied using this formula:<br /> Number of items (normalized by 100 m) = Number of litter per items x (100 / survey length)<br /> Then, this normalized number of items is summed to obtain the total normalized number of litter for each survey.<br /><br />To calculate percentages for each material category, formula applied is:<br />Material (%) = (∑number of items (normalized at 100 m) of each material category)*100 / (∑number of items (normalized at 100 m) of all categories)<br /><br />The material categories differ between reference lists (OSPAR, TSG_ML, UNEP, UNEP_MARLIN). In order to apply a common procedure for all the surveys, the material categories have been harmonized.<br /><br />More information is available in the attached documents.<br /><br /><br />Warning: the absence of data on the map doesn't necessarily mean that they don't exist, but that no information has been entered in the Marine Litter Database for this area.
- GeoLocations:
- European beaches -53.602 41.771 28.394 81.686
- FundingReferences:
- European Commission Aggregated data products are generated by EMODnet Chemistry under the support of DG MARE Call for Tenders EASME/EMFF/2016/006-lot4, EASME/2019/OP/0003-lot4.
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