Water (Apr 2020)

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

  • Joana C. Prata,
  • Maria J. Manana,
  • João P. da Costa,
  • Armando C. Duarte,
  • Teresa Rocha-Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/w12041219
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
p. 1219

Abstract

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Small microplastics (−1 and 3 microplastics L−1 for the Aveiro Lagoon and 1 microplastics L−1 and 0 microplastics L−1 for the Vouga River, Portugal. This work also raises concerns about the underreporting of environmental concentrations of microplastics.

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