Liliya Khatmullina

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively discuss what is known about the different processes that govern the transport of floating marine plastic debris in both the open ocean and the coastal zones, based on the published literature and referring to insights from neighbouring fields such as oil spill dispersion, marine safety recovery, plankton connectivity, and others.

TL;DR: The effect of particle's shape on its settling velocity is highlighted, indicating the need of further experiments with real marine microplastics of different shapes and the necessity of the development of reasonable parameterization of microplastic settling for proper modeling of their transport in the water column.

TL;DR: These experiments are the first step towards modelling of transport of fibres in marine environment and they seem to reproduce the main features of fibre distribution quite well, including their very slow sinking and their low re-suspension threshold.

TL;DR: Water samples collected in 6 research cruises in 2015-2016 in the Bornholm, Gdansk, and Gotland basins were analysed and distribution of particles over depths, types, and geographical regions is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the entire MP ensemble at every time instant can be characterized by continuous distributive distribution, and that MPs exhibit wide ranges of densities, sizes, and shapes.