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Austin S.Allen, Alexander C.Seymour & Daniel Rittschof. 2017. Chemoreception drives plastic consumption in a hard coral. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 124, ...
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R. Geyer, J.R.. Jambeck, K.L. Law, Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made. Science. Advances. 3, e1700782 (2017) Abstract Plastics have ...
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Laurent L. C. M. Lebreton et al . River plastic emissions to the world's oceans, Nature Communications . 8, 15611 doi: 10.1038/ncomms15611 (2017). ...
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Cozar et al ., 2017. The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation, Science Advances . ...
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