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Covid-19-derived plastic debris contaminating marine ecosystem: Alert from a sea turtle
On 10 August 2021, a face mask (14 cm × 9 cm) was found in the feces of a juvenile green turtle, by-caught alive in a set net off the northeast coast of Japan. Although sea turtles have been monitored in this region over the last 15 years (n = 76), face masks had never been found before the Covid-19...
Autores principales: | Fukuoka, Takuya, Sakane, Fumiki, Kinoshita, Chihiro, Sato, Katsufumi, Mizukawa, Kaoruko, Takada, Hideshige |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35149314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113389 |
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