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Impact of the marine litter pollution on the Mediterranean biodiversity: A risk assessment study with focus on the marine protected areas. Soto-Navarro, Francisco Javier Jordà, Gabriel Compa, Montserrat Alomar, Carme Fossi, Maria Cristina Deudero, Salud Contaminación marina - Evaluación del riesgo Biodiversidad marina Se adjunta la versión postprint aceptada, que incluye las correcciones de de los revisores, debido a que la editorial tiene los derechos de copyright y no permite la difusión en acceso abierto de la versión publicada. Puede accederse a la misma a través del DOI que se incluye en los datos de la publicación. In this paper a novel methodology to assess the risk of marine litter (ML) pollution in the Mediterranean Sea is implemented. In this approach, the hazard component is estimated using a state-of-the-art 3D modeling system, which allows the simulation of floating and sinking ML particles; the exposure component is defined from biodiversity estimates; and the vulnerability is related to ML ingestion rates of each species. The results show that the hot-spots for the ML risk concentrate in the coastal regions, and are mainly conditioned by the biodiversity in the region. A dedicated analysis on the marine protected areas shows that the risk therein is controlled by the proximity to ML sources and that their present-day protection levels are not effective in the case of ML pollution. Only a reduction of ML at the sources could reduce the impact of ML pollution in protected areas. 2024-01-30T11:57:24Z 2024-01-30T11:57:24Z 2024 2021-03-07 journal article J. Soto-Navarro, G. Jordá, M. Compa, C. Alomar, M.C. Fossi, S. Deudero. Impact of the marine litter pollution on the Mediterranean biodiversity: A risk assessment study with focus on the marine protected areas, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 165, 112169. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112169. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29395 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112169 spa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier