Temporal and spatial distribution of floating marine macro litter in the offshore waters of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea (BYS).

The categories, sources, and distribution of floating marine macro litter (FMML) in the offshore waters of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea (BYS) in the summer and autumn of 2021 and the spring of 2022 were investigated by visual ship transect surveys based on imaging video. The average FMML density of the BYS was estimated to be 26.09 ± 130.

Comparative Analysis of Total and Size-Fractionated Chlorophyll in the Yellow Sea and Western Pacific.

Measurements of different size-fractionated chlorophyll concentrations (Chl ) of phytoplankton assemblages are vital for advancing our understanding of the phytoplankton size structure and thus the marine biogeochemical cycle. In the present study, we thus made a comparative analysis of total and size-fractionated Chl in the Yellow Sea (YS) and Western Pacific (WP). Our results suggest that the total Chl was highly variable in the YS (averaging ~1.

Marine litter on the seafloors of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and northern East China Sea.

Seafloor litter was investigated in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and northern East China Sea (BYnECS) based on fisheries-independent bottom trawl surveys in 2019. The mean density of seafloor litter was 48.44 items∙km (44.

Is seafloor litter contributing to sea anemone blooms?

Increasing marine litter have become a global environmental disaster. The accumulation of seafloor litter (generally includes anthropogenic litter and natural debris) could change the habitat of benthic organisms and thereby affecting their population dynamics including spatial distribution. Metridium senile fimbriatum (i.