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Plastic pollution fosters more microbial growth in lakes than natural organic matter

Plastic debris widely pollutes freshwaters. Abiotic and biotic degradation of plastics releases carbon-based substrates that are available for heterotrophic growth, but little is known about how these novel organic compounds influence microbial metabolism. Here we found leachate from plastic shoppin...

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Autores principales: Sheridan, Eleanor A., Fonvielle, Jérémy A., Cottingham, Samuel, Zhang, Yi, Dittmar, Thorsten, Aldridge, David C., Tanentzap, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9325981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35882837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31691-9