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Raw data for the paper "Above and in the underground: Linking microplastic patterns in cave and surface crustaceans along a karst river stretch"
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Researchers provided the raw dataset accompanying a published study on microplastic patterns in cave and surface crustaceans along a karst river stretch, examining how microplastic contamination compares between subterranean and surface-dwelling crustacean species in Environmental Pollution (2025).
The dataset corresponds to the published paper: Above and in the underground: Linking microplastic patterns in cave and surface crustaceans along a karst river stretch; Environmental Pollution; 384, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126939
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