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Zooplankton grazing of microplastic can accelerate global loss of ocean oxygen.

Nat Commun · 2021 · PMC8060285 · PMID 33883554

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It has been hypothesised previously in the literature that microplastic contamination of the base of the marine food web may be significant enough to disrupt the biological pump 20 – 24 (albeit with mechanisms different from what we demonstrate here).

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