A marine ecosystem on a plastic bottle cap (IMAGE)

Nagoya University

A marine ecosystem on a plastic bottle cap

Caption

Inside a 3.5 cm plastic bottle cap: A miniature ecosystem of 307 organisms drifted from the Philippines to waters south of Japan.

Credit

Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Nagoya University

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License

CC BY

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