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Microplastics in Mediterranean Sea: A protocol to robustly assess contamination characteristics

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  • Mikaël Kedzierski
  • Jonathan Villain
  • Mathilde Falcou-Préfol
  • Marie Emmanuelle Kerros
  • Maryvonne Henry
  • Maria Luiza Pedrotti
  • Stéphane Bruzaud

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The study of microplastic pollution involves multidisciplinary analyses on a large number of microplastics. Therefore, providing an overview of plastic pollution is time consuming and, despite high throughput analyses, remains a major challenge. The objective of this study is to propose a protocol to determine how many microplastics must be analyzed to give a representative view of the particle size distribution and chemical nature, and calculate the associated margin error. Based on microplastic data from Tara Mediterranean campaign, this approach is explained through different examples. In this particular case, the results show that only 3% of the collected microplastics need to be analyzed to give a precise view on the scale of the North West Mediterranean Basin (error

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  • Mikaël Kedzierski & Jonathan Villain & Mathilde Falcou-Préfol & Marie Emmanuelle Kerros & Maryvonne Henry & Maria Luiza Pedrotti & Stéphane Bruzaud, 2019. "Microplastics in Mediterranean Sea: A protocol to robustly assess contamination characteristics," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-16, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0212088
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212088
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