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"ref": "2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:",
"text": "Plastic in the ocean is constantly being degraded; even something as big and buoyant as a milk jug will eventually shed and splinter into microplastics. These plastics develop biofilms of distinct microbial communities — the “plastisphere,” said Linda Amaral-Zettler, a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, who coined the term. […] A sample of South Atlantic water containing plankton and microplastics. Ocean plastics commonly develop a filmy “plastisphere” of distinct microbial communities.",
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}
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"The ecosystem on the surface of a piece of plastic (especially in a marine environment)."
],
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"ecology",
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],
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"ecosystem",
"ecosystem"
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"plastic",
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"(ecology) The ecosystem on the surface of a piece of plastic (especially in a marine environment)."
],
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"ecology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
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