Marine debris on beaches of Arraial do Cabo, RJ, Brazil: An important coastal tourist destination

Silva, Melanie Lopes da; Castro, Rebeca Oliveira; Sales, Alessandro Souza; Araújo, Fábio Vieira de

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.03.026

Cited by 56 publications

(29 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This study has shown that monitoring data can be used to estimate marine debris abundance and temporal trends, and identify drivers of debris loads on shorelines within two US National Marine Sanctuaries: Olympic Coast (OCNMS) and Greater Farallones (GFNMS). Similar to other shoreline monitoring studies worldwide, marine debris in the two sanctuaries was dominated by plastic items, in particular, plastic fragments (Derraik, 2002;Thiel et al, 2013;Hong et al, 2014;Hoellein et al, 2015;Schulz et al, 2015;Hardesty et al, 2017a,b;Nelms et al, 2017;Araujo et al, 2018;da Silva et al, 2018;Ko et al, 2018;Ryan et al, 2018;Ambrose et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Temporal Trends and Potential Drivers of Stranded Marine Debris on Beaches Within Two US National Marine Sanctuaries Using Citizen Science Data

Uhrin

Lippiatt

Herring

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Marine debris is a threat to our ocean that can be more effectively addressed through monitoring and assessment of items stranded on shorelines. This study engaged citizen scientists to conduct shoreline marine debris surveys according to a published NOAA protocol within the Greater Farallones and Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuaries on the west coast of the United States. Here, we use the results of these multi-year monitoring data to estimate marine debris abundance and temporal trends, and identify drivers of debris loads. Changes in debris counts and composition are shown to reflect seasonal patterns of coastal upwelling and downwelling, but longer temporal trends in overall debris loads depend on the sampling window. Identifying drivers of stranded debris is challenging given the observational nature of the data. A linear increase in total expected debris counts was observed when up to five participants are conducting a survey, suggesting a need to standardize the number of participants and their search pattern for debris in shoreline monitoring efforts. Lastly, we discuss the application of shoreline marine debris data to evaluate the impact of management decisions and identify new targets for mitigation.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Temporal Trends and Potential Drivers of Stranded Marine Debris on Beaches Within Two US National Marine Sanctuaries Using Citizen Science Data

Uhrin

Lippiatt

Herring

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The transformation of a region into a tourist destination causes changes in socio-spatial relationships, leading in many situations to the disfigurement of natural landscapes and environmental degradation. Silva et al [13] indentified that the lack of education of the tourists and beaches users, who throw away the garbage produced by them on the sands of the beaches. The educational efforts such as signs at the entrance of the beaches, educational campaigns on a local or national scale, beach-cleaning activities to reduce the waste; increase the cleaning frequency on beaches; strengthen law enforcement in coast areas; reduce the use of disposable items on the coastal area should be recommenced [14], [15].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourist Behavior of Plastic Waste Reduction in the Coastal Area of Trang Province, Thailand

Ounsaneha¹,

Laosee²,

Suksaroj³

et al. 2020

IJESD

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The objective of this study is to estimate the tourist behavior of plastic waste reduction in the coastal area of Trang Province, Thailand. 316 tourists (153 male, 163 female) traveling in the five districts along with the coastal area were included as the participants in this study. The results showed that 57 % of the tourists were found to be good behavior. Amongst 14 variables in statistic analysis, knowledge was found as significant predictor after adjusting in full model of multiple logistic regression. The knowledge compain of plastic waste reduction ought to be promoted to increase of awareness among tourists for reducing plastic waste problem in the coastal area at early age. A greater emphasis must be placed on formulation and implementation of policies aimed at addressing the emerging problems of plastic waste in the costal area of Thailand.

show abstract

“…Marine debris was also an important threat factor for sea turtles in this study, especially for D. Castro, Sales, & Araújo, 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Some coastal areas along Rio de Janeiro have been characterized by large amounts of marine debris introduced mainly by river systems and by inhabitants/tourists with inadequate disposal practices (e.g. Guanabara Bay and nearby region: Neto & Fonseca, ; Silva, Araújo, Castro, & Sales, ; Arraial do Cabo/Cabo Frio region: Oigman‐Pszczol & Creed, ; Silva, Castro, Sales, & Araújo, ). In this study, these regions had the highest occurrences of marine debris ingestion among the analysed turtles, which reinforces the urgent need for management actions on this issue.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatio‐temporal distribution of sea turtle strandings and factors contributing to their mortality in south‐eastern Brazil

Tagliolatto

Goldberg

Godfrey

et al. 2019

Aquatic Conservation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Data on stranded sea turtles were examined between 2010 and 2016 along the northern region of Rio de Janeiro state and between 2016 and 2017 in the southern region, looking for spatio‐temporal patterns and determining which factors contributed to their mortality. A total of 12,162 strandings of all five species that occur in Brazil were recorded, with Chelonia mydas being the most common (89.9%). Sea turtles use the Rio de Janeiro coast as a feeding and/or migration area. The intense upwelling (October to April) may be an important factor for the sea turtles feeding in this region, mainly for Eretmochelys imbricata and Dermochelys coriacea, which had a higher number of strandings during this period. Areas further north of the study area include an important nesting site for Caretta caretta in Brazil, which explains the higher concentration of strandings of subadults/adults of this species in this region and during its nesting season. Many anthropogenic threats to sea turtles were documented, mainly incidental capture in fisheries and marine debris, indicating possible hotspots for these threats in the regions of Sepetiba and Guanabara Bays, Cabo Frio, and São Francisco de Itabapoana. Among the natural causes of strandings, the primary factors were chronic illness, endoparasites, and fibropapillomatosis. However, pollution may also be an indirect threat, which negatively affects these animals through reduced health and immunosuppression, leaving them more susceptible to opportunistic diseases. These data are valuable for directing and implementing specific and local mitigation measures along the Rio de Janeiro state coast, such as avoiding bycatch hotspots through fleet communication programmes and/or area and seasonal closures, enforceable legislation, effective penalties and proper waste management.

show abstract

Marine debris on beaches of Arraial do Cabo, RJ, Brazil: An important coastal tourist destination

Cited by 56 publications

References 14 publications

Temporal Trends and Potential Drivers of Stranded Marine Debris on Beaches Within Two US National Marine Sanctuaries Using Citizen Science Data

Temporal Trends and Potential Drivers of Stranded Marine Debris on Beaches Within Two US National Marine Sanctuaries Using Citizen Science Data

Tourist Behavior of Plastic Waste Reduction in the Coastal Area of Trang Province, Thailand

Spatio‐temporal distribution of sea turtle strandings and factors contributing to their mortality in south‐eastern Brazil

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About