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Pollution and Meiofauna—Old Topics, New Hazards

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Regrettably, pollution, in one or another form, will remain a permanent hazard even in the future. So, what is new with studies on pollution, where is the forward perspective? In the last years, new developments caused new sources of pollution with a risk potential of an unprecedented, global scale: water acidification through climate change and environmental impact of plastic debris. Other pollutants envisaged here are indeed ‘old’, but their possible fields of impact are new and require novel studies in hitherto untouched reaches: petroleum hydrocarbons widespread at the deep-sea floor and in groundwater layers.

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Giere, O. (2019). Pollution and Meiofauna—Old Topics, New Hazards. In: Perspectives in Meiobenthology. SpringerBriefs in Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13966-7_3

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