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The Effects of Concentration, Size and Form of Microplastics and the Presence of Biofilm on the Ingestion and Accumulation of Microplastics in Acorn Barnacle Amphibalanus Amphitrite: An Assessment of its Use as a Microplastics Bioindicator
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