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dc.contributor.authorSmeaton, Craig
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-18T09:30:34Z
dc.date.available2021-05-18T09:30:34Z
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.identifier.citationSmeaton , C 2021 , ' Augmentation of global marine sedimentary carbon storage in the age of plastic ' , Limnology and Oceanography Letters , vol. 6 , no. 3 , pp. 113-118 . https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10187en
dc.identifier.issn2378-2242
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 273035290
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 28b92066-34fe-49a7-a6c8-692e2ff8c300
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000626516500001
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4535-2555/work/94291658
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85109202134
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23214
dc.descriptionFunding: Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society, Natural Environment Research Council (GrantNumber(s): NE/L501852/1).en
dc.description.abstractPlastic is entering the world's oceans at an unprecedented rate impacting the functioning of the natural marine environment. Yet little consideration has been given to the potential of carbon (C) in the form of plastic (Cplas) to augment the marine carbon system. Here it is shown that Cplas is an integral part of the anthropogenic marine C cycle. Annually, 7.8 ± 1.73 Mt of Cplas is deposited at the seabed with a further 17.2–57.1 Mt Cplas already present on the seafloor. The quantity of Cplas currently being deposited on the seabed annually exceeds the rate at which organic carbon (OC) is buried in some marine sediments and by 2050 it is possible that the rate at which Cplas is buried will match fjord sediments which are global hotspots for OC burial. Though unwanted this new anthropogenic pathway for C to reach the marine environment cannot be ignored.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofLimnology and Oceanography Lettersen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 The Author. Limnology and Oceanography Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectPlasticen
dc.subjectCarbonen
dc.subjectSeabeden
dc.subjectSeaflooren
dc.subjectBurialen
dc.subjectSedimenten
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectQE Geologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccQEen
dc.titleAugmentation of global marine sedimentary carbon storage in the age of plasticen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10187
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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