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Development and use of a tissue-destruction method to extract microplastics in blue crabs (callinectes sapidus)
2018
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Elijah N. Waddell
Summary
This paper reviewed evidence for microplastic contamination in the Azores archipelago marine environment, synthesizing data from water, sediment, and biota monitoring studies. Despite the islands' remote location in the mid-Atlantic, microplastic concentrations were comparable to more urbanized coastal regions, attributed to convergence of North Atlantic current systems transporting plastic from distant sources.