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SUBMITTER: Reisser J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4062529 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reisser Julia J Shaw Jeremy J Hallegraeff Gustaaf G Proietti Maira M Barnes David K A DK Thums Michele M Wilcox Chris C Hardesty Britta Denise BD Pattiaratchi Charitha C
PloS one 20140618 6
Millimeter-sized plastics are abundant in most marine surface waters, and known to carry fouling organisms that potentially play key roles in the fate and ecological impacts of plastic pollution. In this study we used scanning electron microscopy to characterize biodiversity of organisms on the surface of 68 small floating plastics (length range = 1.7-24.3 mm, median = 3.2 mm) from Australia-wide coastal and oceanic, tropical to temperate sample collections. Diatoms were the most diverse group o ...[more]