Microplastics in oceans

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1589-1591

  Zarfl, Christiane ^a   Fleet, David ^b   Fries, Elke ^a   Galgani, François ^c   Gerdts, Gunnar ^d   Hanke, Georg ^e   Matthies, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b National Park and Marine Conservation   (Germany)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLASTIC; PLASTICIZER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIODIVERSITY; DUMPING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLASTICS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79960397016     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.02.040     Document Type: Editorial

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