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Tackling Marine Litter—LITTERBASE

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Anthropogenic litter contamination of the oceans is a global problem of growing concern and currently receives strongly increasing attention by policy makers, public authorities, media and the general public. Unlike many other pollutants, marine litter on beaches and its deleterious effects on marine mammals, birds and turtles have attracted much attention as they can be directly observed by stakeholders.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the AWI IT and GIS departments for their support in developing and launching LITTERBASE. T. Busch, F. van Heeckeren, I. Kittel, C. Peter, B. Staufenbiel and N. Steiner extracted and fed information from publications into LITTERBASE. This publication is Eprint 43257of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

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  1. HGF-MPG Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Melanie Bergmann & Mine B. Tekman

  2. Computer and Data Centre, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Andreas Walter

  3. Functional Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Lars Gutow

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  1. Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP), Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

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Bergmann, M., Tekman, M.B., Walter, A., Gutow, L. (2018). Tackling Marine Litter—LITTERBASE. In: Krause, G. (eds) Building Bridges at the Science-Stakeholder Interface. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75919-7_13

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