Plastic Debris With Natural Scent Attracts Seabirds (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Plastic Debris With Natural Scent Attracts Seabirds (3 of 3)

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Deploying experimental plastic debris at a buoy in Monterey Bay, California is shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 9, 2016 issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.S. Savoca at University of California, Davis in Davis, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Marine plastic debris emits a keystone infochemical for olfactory foraging seabirds."

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Matthew Savoca

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