Diffuse pollution by persistent organic pollutants as measured in plastic pellets sampled from various beaches in Greece.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Marine Pollution Bulletin

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.10.009PMID 21092999
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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