Autun Purser

TL;DR: Litter was found to be present in the deepest areas and at locations as remote from land as the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and on ocean ridges.

TL;DR: While densities and diversities of some taxa can recover to or even exceed pre-disturbance levels, community composition remains affected after decades, and community shifts that persist over geological timescales at mined sites are identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the hydrodynamic behavior (density, settling velocity and resuspension characteristics) of non-buoyant preproduction plastic pellets in the laboratory and used the MOHID modeling system to predict what would be the likely transport and deposition pathways of such material in the Nazare Canyon (Portugal) during the spring/summer months of 2009 and the autumn/winter months of 2011.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether plastics affected the growth, feeding and behaviour of the main engineer species, Lophelia pertusa, suggested that plastics may constitute a major threat for reef aggradation by inhibiting coral growth, and thus jeopardise the resilience of cold-water coral reefs and their associated biodiversity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate three aspects of plastic distribution and transport in European waters, and assess patterns in the distribution of plastics found in fluvial strandlines of the North Sea and how distribution may be related to flow velocities and distance from source.