Fig. 3
From: Evaluating the environmental impact of cleaning the North Pacific Garbage Patch
(a) Vulnerability scores of nine ecological guilds towards macroplastic (> 5 mm; dark blue), microplastics (1 µm–5 mm; grey) and cleanup (light blue) impacts in the North Pacific Garbage Patch. A value of one and three represents a low and high vulnerability, respectively. (b) Average values for the extent, duration, intensity, reversibility, and frequency of macroplastics (dark blue), microplastics (grey), and cleanup (light blue) impacts across all nine ecological guilds considered in this study. The size of the markers is scaled to the respective uncertainty scores, with larger size corresponding to larger uncertainty. Note that all values are provided in Tables S2 and S3.
