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Microplastics (MPs) are widely recognized as a contaminant of emerging concern in the marine environment. This is a work in progress as part of a project aiming for the quality assessment of the aquatic environment for aquaculture activity in Portugal, coastal oceanic areas and 4 estuarine regions: ria de Aveiro, Mondego, ria Formosa and Mira. In this context, we report the first results in surface waters in one of the estuarine study areas (Mondego, Portugal).
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Brás Gomes, G., Morgado, V., Palma, C. (2020). Preliminary Data on the Polymer Type Identification from Estuarine Environmental Samples. In: Cocca, M., et al. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. ICMPMS 2019. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45909-3_27
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