New plastic ecosystem forming in oceans

Scientists have discovered that coastal marine organisms hitch rides on plastic debris and travel the seas on them, colonising and reproducing in garbage patches in the oceans. In ThePrint #̦PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the significance of coastal organisms living on plastic in the middle of large oceans.

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Khait et al., Cell (2023). Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.0...
Beyond Chemical Triggers: Evidence for Sound-Evoked Physiological Reactions in Plants https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
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