Effect of plastic waste on sea turtles (IMAGE)
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Plastic in the digestive contents increase when there is more plastic in the environment and when ingested plastics are hard to process. Severely affected individual turtles grow slower, produce fewer eggs, and may even die, all of which reflects on population growth. Especially worrisome are cases when individuals appear relatively healthy, but their weakened growth, reproduction, and survival cause a population decline.
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Ecology Letters
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