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Melanie Bergmann
Researcher at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Publications - 116
Citations - 7177
Melanie Bergmann is an academic researcher from Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Arctic & Microplastics. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 100 publications receiving 5006 citations. Previous affiliations of Melanie Bergmann include University Marine Biological Station Millport & Bangor University.
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Marine Anthropogenic Litter
TL;DR: The authors in this article summarized more than five decades of marine litter research, which receives growing attention after the recent discovery of great oceanic garbage patches and the ubiquity of microscopic plastic particles in marine organisms and habitats.
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White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic.
Melanie Bergmann,Sophia Mützel,Sebastian Primpke,Mine Banu Tekman,Jürg Trachsel,Gunnar Gerdts +5 more
TL;DR: The authors detect microplastics in European and Arctic snow, highlighting the importance of atmospheric transport as a pathway for MPs and highlighting that atmospheric transport and deposition can be notable pathways for MPs meriting more research.
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic
Ilka Peeken,Sebastian Primpke,Birte Beyer,Julia Gütermann,Christian Katlein,Thomas Krumpen,Melanie Bergmann,Laura Hehemann,Gunnar Gerdts +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that MPs in sea-ice have no uniform polymer composition and that, depending on the growth region and drift paths of the sea ice, unique MP patterns can be observed in different sea ice horizons.
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High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory.
Melanie Bergmann,Vanessa Wirzberger,Vanessa Wirzberger,Thomas Krumpen,Claudia Lorenz,Sebastian Primpke,Mine Banu Tekman,Gunnar Gerdts +7 more
TL;DR: The deep sea as a major sink for microplastics and the presence of accumulation areas in this remote part of the world, fed by plastics transported to the North via the Thermohaline Circulation are corroborated.
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Marine litter distribution and density in European seas, from the shelves to deep basins.
Christopher K. Pham,Eva Ramirez-Llodra,Eva Ramirez-Llodra,Claudia H. S. Alt,Teresa Amaro,Melanie Bergmann,Miquel Canals,Jaime S. Davies,Gerard C.A. Duineveld,François Galgani,Kerry L. Howell,Veerle A.I. Huvenne,Eduardo Isidro,Daniel O.B. Jones,Galderic Lastras,Telmo Morato,José Nuno Gomes-Pereira,Autun Purser,Heather Stewart,Inês Tojeira,Xavier Tubau,David Van Rooij,Paul A. Tyler +22 more
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.