Dezene Huber 🌻 · @dezene
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There are five so-called "#garbage #patches" in the earth's oceans – areas where #currents concentrate surface and near-surface #trash (particularly #plastics).
Obligate #neustonic #organisms – #animals and #plants that must live at or very near the ocean surface – also concentrate in those locations.
So what does that mean for the #ecology of this unique #biotic #community?
See Chong et al (2023) if you would like to know more.
OA 🔗: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001646
#garbage #patches #currents #trash #plastics #neustonic #organisms #animals #plants #ecology #biotic #community #biodiversity #conservation