Leatherback turtles: the menace of plastic.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Marine Pollution Bulletin

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.10.018PMID 19135688
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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