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This paper reports baseline levels of litter (macro, meso and microplastics) in sediments collected from different areas of the Croatian MPA of the Natural Park of Telaščica bay (Adriatic Sea,… Click to show full abstract
This paper reports baseline levels of litter (macro, meso and microplastics) in sediments collected from different areas of the Croatian MPA of the Natural Park of Telaščica bay (Adriatic Sea, GSA n. 17). The distribution of total abundance according to size, for all analysed locations evidences that microplastics are the dominant fraction concerning item's numbers. In all analysed samples no macroplastics were found, while microplastics are 88.71% and mesoplastics are 11.29% of the total.
Keywords:
natural park;
adriatic sea;
park tela;
bay adriatic;
ica bay;
tela ica
Journal Title: Marine pollution bulletin
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Marine pollution bulletin
Year Published: 2017
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