What is the Minimum Volume of Sample to Find Small Microplastics: Laboratory Experiments and Sampling of Aveiro Lagoon and Vouga River, Portugal

Small microplastics (<1 mm) comprise a great fraction of microplastics (<5 mm) found in the environment and are often overlooked due to the constrains of transporting and filtering large volumes of water in grab samplings. The objective of this work was to determine the minimum volume for reli...

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Main Authors: Joana C. Prata, Maria J. Manana, João P. da Costa, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa Rocha-Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/4/1219