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Supplementary Information for Microplastics: Sources, Pathways and Aquatic Fate
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This is a supplementary data file supporting a doctoral thesis on microplastics. It contains extra methods, figures, tables and references covering studies of European microplastic emissions, tire wear, river-network modeling and the East China Sea. It does not present new findings beyond what is detailed in the related thesis chapters.
Supplementary Information for Chapters 2–5 of my doctoral thesis, Microplastics: Sources, Pathways and Aquatic Fate. This single PDF brings together the supplementary methods, figures, tables and references for the European emissions inventory, tire wear emissions analysis, river-network modeling and East China Sea study. Chapter-specific data and code are archived separately and listed in the thesis Research Data Management section.
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