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Documenting often-invisible, sublethal effects in wild animals that are definitively linked to plastic itself has remained elusive.
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Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
The third is that this dosage was sublethal, just to send a message.
—Ellen Barry and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—National Geographic, 26 July 2016
Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
The third is that this dosage was sublethal, just to send a message.
—Ellen Barry and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—National Geographic, 26 July 2016
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