Plastic pellets in the marine environment of Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition)

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 164-171

  Kuriyama, Yuji ^a   Konishi, Kazumi ^a   Kanehiro, Haruyuki ^a   Otake, Chiyoko ^a   Kaminuma, Tsuguchika ^a   Mato, Yukie ^a   Takada, Hideshige ^a   Kojima, Azusa ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 0036011910     PISSN: 00215392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/suisan.68.164     Document Type: Article

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