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Tracing microplastics in aquatic environments based on sediment analogies
Enders, K.; Kappler, A.; Biniasch, O.; Feldens, P.; Stollberg, N.; Lange, X.; Fischer, D.; Eichhorn, K.-J.; Pollehne, F.; Oberbeckmann, S.; Labrenz, M. (2019). Tracing microplastics in aquatic environments based on sediment analogies. NPG Scientific Reports 9(1): 15 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50508-2
In: Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2045-2322; e-ISSN 2045-2322, meer
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  • Enders, K.
  • Kappler, A.
  • Biniasch, O.
  • Feldens, P.
  • Stollberg, N.
  • Lange, X.
  • Fischer, D.
  • Eichhorn, K.-J.
  • Pollehne, F., meer
  • Oberbeckmann, S.
  • Labrenz, M.

Abstract
    Microplastics (MP) data collection from the aquatic environment is a challenging endeavour that sets apparent limitations to regional and global MP quantification. Expensive data collection causes small sample sizes and oftentimes existing data sets are compared without accounting for natural variability due to hydrodynamic processes governing the distribution of particles. In Warnow estuarine sediments (Germany) we found significant correlations between high-density polymer size fractions (≥500 mm) and sediment grain size. Among potential predictor variables (source and environmental terms) sediment grain size was the critical proxy for MP abundance. The MP sediment relationship can be explained by the force necessary to start particle transport: at the same level of fluid motion, transported sediment grains and MP particles are offset in size by one to two orders of magnitude. Determining grain-size corrected MP abundances by fractionated granulometric normalisation is recommended as a basis for future MP projections and identification of sinks and sources.

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