Javier Castro-Jiménez
Aix-Marseille University
49 Papers
216 Citations
Javier Castro-Jiménez is an academic researcher from Aix-Marseille University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mediterranean sea & Deposition (aerosol physics). The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 45 publications. Previous affiliations of Javier Castro-Jiménez include Mines ParisTech & Spanish National Research Council.
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Papers
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean
Daniel González-Fernández,Andrés Cózar,Georg Hanke,Josué Viejo,Carmen Morales-Caselles,Rigers Bakiu,Damià Barceló,Damià Barceló,Filipa Bessa,Antoine Bruge,María del Carmen Cabrera,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Mel Constant,Roberto Crosti,Yuri Galletti,Ahmet E. Kideys,Nino Machitadze,Joana Pereira de Brito,Maria Pogojeva,Nuno Ratola,Júlia Rigueira,Elisa Rojo-Nieto,Oksana Savenko,Rosanna I. Schöneich-Argent,Rosanna I. Schöneich-Argent,Grzegorz Siedlewicz,Giuseppe Suaria,Myrto Tourgeli +28 more
- 10 Jun 2021
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a database of riverine floating macrolitter across Europe to estimate that between 307 and 925 million litter items are released annually from Europe into the ocean.
Macro-litter in surface waters from the Rhone River: Plastic pollution and loading to the NW Mediterranean Sea.
Javier Castro-Jiménez,Daniel González-Fernández,Michel Fornier,Natascha Schmidt,Richard Sempéré +4 more
TL;DR: The first estimates of floating macro-litter in surface waters from the Rhone River are presented, based on monthly visual observations during 1-year period (2016-2017), confirming its predominance in riverine floating litter.
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Phthalates and organophosphate esters in surface water, sediments and zooplankton of the NW Mediterranean Sea: Exploring links with microplastic abundance and accumulation in the marine food web.
Natascha Schmidt,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Benjamin Oursel,Richard Sempéré +4 more
TL;DR: This is the first comprehensive study on the occurrence and temporal variability of PAEs and OPEs in the coastal Mediterranean based on the parallel collection of water, sediment and differently sized zooplankton samples.
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Occurrence of organic plastic additives in surface waters of the Rhône River (France).
TL;DR: 5-54 metric tons year-1 of dissolved organic plastic additives of emerging concern are estimated to be exported to the Gulf of Lion by the Rhône River, which is the main freshwater source of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Organophosphate ester pollution in the oceans
Zhiyong Xie,Pu Wang,Xin Wang,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Roland Kallenborn,Chunyang Liao,Wenying Mi,Rainer Lohmann,Maria Vila-Costa,Jordi Dachs +9 more
TL;DR: The use of organophosphate esters (OPEs) as flame retardants and plasticizers has led to their prevalence in the environment, with still unknown broader impacts as mentioned in this paper .
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