Microplastic pollution in seawater and marine organisms across the Tropical Eastern Pacific and Galápagos

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Plastic accumulation in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

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Isolation of microplastics in biota-rich seawater samples and marine organisms

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Ingestion of microplastics by commercial fish off the Portuguese coast

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Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment

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The Complex Interaction between Marine Debris and Toxic Chemicals in the Ocean

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Distribution, Interactions and Effects

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Ingestion of Nanoplastics and Microplastics by Pacific Oyster Larvae

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The ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic food web, from primary producer to human: A review

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Microplastics and seafood: lower trophic organisms at highest risk of contamination

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Plastic pollution in the South Pacific subtropical gyre

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Are we underestimating microplastic abundance in the marine environment? A comparison of microplastic capture with nets of different mesh-size

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Plastic pollution of the world’s seas and oceans as a contemporary challenge in ocean governance

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Distribution of Surface Plastic Debris in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from an 11-Year Data Set

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Interactions between polystyrene microplastics and marine phytoplankton lead to species-specific hetero-aggregation

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Ingestion of Microplastic Has Limited Impact on a Marine Larva

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Occurrence of Microplastics in Commercial Seafood under the Perspective of the Human Food Chain. A Review

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Plasticizer endocrine disruption: Highlighting developmental and reproductive effects in mammals and non-mammalian aquatic species

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Accumulation of debris on the deep sea floor off the French Mediterranean coast

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Low prevalence of microplastic contamination in planktivorous fish species from the southeast Pacific Ocean

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Are we eating plastic-ingesting fish?

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Revisiting Peruvian anchovy (Engraulis ringens) trophodynamics provides a new vision of the Humboldt Current system

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Morphology of the filtration apparatus of three planktivorous fishes and relation with ingested anthropogenic particles

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Marine foods sourced from farther as their use of global ocean primary production increases

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Basin-scale sources and pathways of microplastic that ends up in the Galápagos Archipelago

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Soil texture analysis revisited: Removal of organic matter matters more than ever

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Modelling microplastic bioaccumulation and biomagnification potential in the Galápagos penguin ecosystem using Ecopath and Ecosim (EwE) with Ecotracer

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A review of plastic and microplastic pollution towards the Malaysian marine environment

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Strategies to Overcome Marine Pollution Caused by Plastic Waste to Protect Marine Environment in Indonesia

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Plastic Pollution in the Marine Coastal Zone of Peru

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Macroplastics Pollution in the Marine Environment

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A Review of the Production, Recycling and Management of Marine Plastic Pollution

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