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Microplastic Abundance and Polymer Types in a Mediterranean Environment

Springer water 2017 44 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Νικολέττα Δίγκα, Catherine Tsangaris, Helen Kaberi, Argyro Adamopoulou, Argyro Adamopoulou, Christina Zeri

Summary

Researchers surveyed microplastic abundance and polymer types across multiple compartments of a Mediterranean marine environment, documenting their presence from the sea surface to beach sediments and within marine organisms. The study adds to growing evidence that microplastics are pervasive throughout Mediterranean coastal ecosystems.

Study Type Environmental

Microplastics have become a more and more dominant threat to marine ecosystems. The ubiquity of microplastics is one of the major problems; from the sea surface and water column to the beach and seabed sediment or even ingested by marine organisms, small plastic...

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