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Microplastic Accumulation in Freshwater Gastropods Across an Urban Gradient

  • N. Haruna

    Kyoto Prefectural High School · High school

  • L. Whitfield

    University of Leeds · Graduate

This paper is still in review. The full text becomes available if and when an editor accepts it.

Abstract

We sampled 312 gastropods from nine sites along an urbanisation gradient and quantified microplastic burden by polymer type. Burden scaled with upstream impervious surface area. We discuss limitations of digestion-based extraction at this sample size.

microplasticsfreshwater ecologybioindicators

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Version history

  1. v22026-08-30Revised statistics per reviewer requestCurrent
  2. v12026-07-14Initial submission