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A plastic microfiber stuck on a blade of seagrass Thalassia hemprichii (photo credit: Nicholas Seng Ren Yang, taken in laboratory in 2020). Their presence suggests another pathway for microplastics to enter into the marine food web, namely, through herbivory.
