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MOESM1 of Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects
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This supplementary document provides concentration tables of microplastics in marine and freshwater environments along with effect concentrations from ecotoxicity tests with aquatic organisms. The tables compile ranges and median values from published studies to support a review on microplastic sources, fate, and effects in the aquatic and terrestrial environment.
Additional file 1: Table S1. Overview of ranges and mean or median values (underlined) of concentrations of microplastics (or, where specified, small plastic particles) in the marine environment based on Hidalgo-Ruz et al. [11] and selected recent publication. Table S2. Overview of ranges and mean or median values (underlined) of concentrations of microplastics (or, where specified, small plastic particles) in the freshwater environment. Table S3. Overview of effect concentrations derived in ecotoxicity tests with aquatic organisms exposed to microplastics.
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