Boring crustaceans damage polystyrene floats under docks polluting marine waters with microplastic

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1821-1828

  Davidson, Timothy M ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burrowing isopod; Invasive species; Marine borers; Microplastic; Plastic pollution; Sphaeroma quoianum

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ISOPOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC POLLUTIONS; SPHAEROMA QUOIANUM;

AQUACULTURE; DOCKS; MARINE BORERS; POLLUTION; POLYSTYRENES;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

PLASTIC; POLYSTYRENE;

AQUACULTURE; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOPOD; MARINE POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTIC WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BORING SPECIES; BURROWING SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOAM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPHAEROMA QUOIANUM; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOPODA; PLASTICS; POLYSTYRENES; SEAWATER; SHIPS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA; SPHAEROMA;

EID: 84865375186     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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