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Open AccessCharacteristics of Plastic Debris Ingested by Sea Turtles: A Comprehensive Review
Sea turtles, an ecologically vital marine species, face the mounting threat of plastic ingestion. To devise effective mitigation strategies, a nuanced understanding of the characteristics of ingested plastics ...
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Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment
The discovery of atmospheric micro(nano)plastic transport and ocean–atmosphere exchange points to a highly complex marine plastic cycle, with negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Yet, observat...
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Open AccessMicroplastic contamination of table salts from Taiwan, including a global review
Plastic pollution is a rapidly worsening environmental problem, especially in oceanic habitats. Environmental pollution with microplastic particles is also causing food consumed by humans to be increasingly po...
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Coastal Ecosystem Health Assessment in Korea: Busan Case Study
As a pioneering effort to assess the health of marine ecosystems in Korea, coastal ecosystem components were monitored in the Busan coastal area from 2013 to 2015. Pelagic ecosystem assessment focused on eutro...
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Imposex in Reishia clavigera as an Indicator to Assess Recovery of TBT Pollution After a Total Ban in South Korea
The temporal changes in the frequency and degree of imposex and tributyltin (TBT) levels in gastropod (Reishia clavigera) were evaluated in **hae Bay, 5 and 10 years after the total ban on TBT usage in South Kor...
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Long-Term Monitoring of PAH Contamination in Sediment and Recovery After the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill
Approximately 10,900 t of crude oil was released 10 km off the west coast of Korea after the collision between the oil tanker Hebei Spirit and a barge carrying a crane in December 2007. To assess the areal ext...
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Long-term changes in rocky intertidal macrobenthos during the five years after the Hebei Spirit oil spill, Taean, Korea
The Hebei Spirit oil spill reached the west coast of Taean County, Korea, on December 7, 2007. At that time, this was the largest oil spill that had occurred in the country. The incident devastated local marine e...
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Optimization and application of atmospheric pressure chemical and photoionization hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry for speciation of oxygen-containing compounds
This paper presents a detailed investigation of the feasibility of optimized positive and negative atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) mass spectrometry (MS) and atmospheric pressure photoionizatio...
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Modeling the changes in the concentration of aromatic hydrocarbons from an oil-coated gravel column
The performance of a lab-scale flow-through exposure system designed for the evaluation of ecotoxicity due to oil spills was evaluated. The system simulates a spill event using an oil-coated gravel column thro...
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Microplastics in the Ocean
Since their ubiquity in the ocean and marine organisms was first revealed, global concern about microplastics has grown considerably. The North Pacific Ocean and the adjacent marginal seas have high levels of ...
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Occurrence and Distribution of Microplastics in the Sea Surface Microlayer in **hae Bay, South Korea
Microplastic contamination of the marine environment is a worldwide concern. The abundance of microplastics was evaluated in the sea surface microlayer in **hae Bay, on the southern coast of Korea. The micro...
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Abundance and Distribution Characteristics of Microplastics in Surface Seawaters of the Incheon/Kyeonggi Coastal Region
Microplastics in marine environments are of emerging concern due to their widespread distribution, their ingestion by various marine organisms, and their roles as a source and transfer vector of toxic chemical...
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Qualitative Analysis of Additives in Plastic Marine Debris and Its New Products
Due to their formulation and/or processing, plastics contain additives and impurities that may leach out under conditions of use and accumulate in the environment. To evaluate their role as vectors of chemical...
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Distribution and Size Relationships of Plastic Marine Debris on Beaches in South Korea
The characteristics of the distribution of plastic marine debris were determined on 12 beaches in South Korea in 2013 and 2014. The abundances of large micro- (1–5 mm), meso- (5–25 mm), and macroplastics (>25 ...
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Potential Threat of Microplastics to Zooplanktivores in the Surface Waters of the Southern Sea of Korea
The potential impact of microplastic to zooplanktivores was assessed by measuring a ratio of neustonic microplastics to zooplankton by abundance in the southern sea of Korea. Neustonic microplastics and zoopla...
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Oil-suspended particulate matter aggregates: Formation mechanism and fate in the marine environment
Oil suspended particulate matter (SPM) aggregates (OSA) are naturally occurring phenomena where oil droplets and particles interact to form aggregates. This aggregation could aid cleanup processes of oil conta...
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Molecular cloning, characterisation and expression of the translationally controlled tumor protein gene in rock bream (Oplegnathus fasciatus)
Translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) is an important immune regulator that has been implicated in a number of cellular processes, including cell growth, cell cycle progression, apoptosis regulation ...
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Biochemical responses of juvenile rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) to low levels of dissolved oxygen in Gamak Bay
Gamak Bay is one of the largest aquaculture areas in the South Sea of Korea and exhibits hypoxia conditions during the summer. The harmful effects of hypoxia on aquaculture fish stock have not been elucidated....
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Integrative assessment of sediment quality in terms of chemical contamination in **hae Bay, South Korea
The assessment of sediment quality by considering chemical contaminants is required for the effective management of coastal environments. In this study, complex data sets of heavy metals and organic pollutants...
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Assessment of pollution and ecological risk of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Ulsan Bay, Korea
Heavy metal concentrations in the surface sediments of specially managed Ulsan Bay were investigated to determine metal distribution, pollution status and its ecological risk using pollution indices (enrichmen...
