Marine debris, a growing problem: Sources, distribution, composition, and impacts

Marine Pollution: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-100

  Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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