Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.14020PMID 29245177PMCID PMC5834940
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