First characterization and risk assessment of microplastics in the endangered Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor): Implications for conservation strategies

• Ahsaan Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6479-1892

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• Christian Sonne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecoscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

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• Mehmood Aslam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Imran Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KEO International Consultants, United Kingdom

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• Sajjad Hussain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Abdul Qadir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Shazia Sukhera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Hassan Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Sajid Rashid Ahmad,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3831-3099

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• Guang Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gyang@njnu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2301-5171

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