Foreword to the research front on ‘Microplastics in Soils’
Moritz Bigalke A and Montserrat Filella B C
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A Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.
B Department F.-A. Forel, University of Geneva, Boulevard Carl-Vogt 66, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
C Corresponding author. Email: montserrat.filella@unige.ch
Environmental Chemistry 16(1) 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/ENv16n1_FO
Published: 11 February 2019
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