Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics

Plastic pollution is abundant in aquatic environments worldwide and many of its detrimental impacts are well documented, but it also represents a novel substrate available to a diversity of organisms. Biofilms – assemblages of bacteria, algae, and fungi – colonise hard surfaces in aquatic environmen...

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Main Authors: Imogen L. Smith, Thomas Stanton, Antonia Law
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911021000265