A brief history of marine litter research

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-25

  Ryan, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Environmental impact; History; Ingestion; Microplastics; Plastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944038801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16510-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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