Food ecology and presence of microplastic in the stomach content of neotropical fish in an urban river of the upper Paraná River Basin

Plastic is a useful material; but along with its benefits also come several disadvantages. One of these is the consequences of the improper discarding of plastic in the environment and its eventual fragmentation into microplastics. Plastic can reach rivers and affect their biota as microparticles fr...

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Main Authors: Cristian Wesley de Souza Oliveira, Cláudia dos Santos Corrêa, Welber Senteio Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) 2020-08-01
Series:Revista Ambiente & Água
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Online Access:https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-993X2020000400306&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en