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Plastics in the North Atlantic garbage patch: A boat-microbe for hitchhikers and plastic degraders

Debroas, Didier, Mone, Anne, Ter Halle, Alexandra·2017·Science of The Total Environment
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.059
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Authors
Debroas, D., Mone, A., & Ter Halle, A.
Venue
Science of The Total Environment
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-12
Volume
599-600
Pages
1222-1232
ISSN
0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.059
OpenAlex
W2613214759
Cited by
424
References
17
FWCI
11.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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