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A Review on Microplastics in Offshore and Nearshore Waters
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This short review covered sampling and analytical techniques used to quantify microplastics in nearshore and offshore ocean waters, providing an overview of published distribution data across different oceans and coastal zones to guide standardization of marine microplastic monitoring.
This short review addresses sampling techniques and analytical techniques for microplastics obtained in near-shore and offshore waters. It also gives an insight into the published data on the distribution of microplastics in coastal and offshore waters of different oceans.
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