Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2009-07-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2008.0205PMID 19528051PMCID PMC2873009
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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