Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Non-native species from Japanese tsunami aided by unlikely partner: Plastics

10/04/2017 03:19 PM EDT

Asian amur sea star

A new study appearing this week in Science reports the discovery of a startling new role of plastic marine debris--the transport of non-native species in the world's oceans.


Full story at http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/sep/non-native-species-japanese-tsunami-aided-unlikely-partner-plastics

Source
Oregon State University


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