Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat

Marine Environmental Research - Tập 128 - Trang 2-11 - 2017
Carlo Giacomo Avio1, Stefania Gorbi1, Francesco Regoli1
1Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente (DISVA), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

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