Marine debris is selected as nesting material by the brown booby (Sula leucogaster) within the Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Marine Pollution Bulletin

• Publication date

  2014-10-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.07.060PMID 25131418
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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