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Fifty-year study of microplastics ingested by brachyuran and fish larvae in the central English North Sea - Data
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This dataset accompanies a 50-year study of microplastic ingestion by brachyuran crab larvae and fish larvae in the central English North Sea. The long-term data shows how microplastic ingestion rates in larval marine organisms have changed over five decades of increasing plastic pollution.
Data for the publication "Priscilla Carrillo-Barragan; Clare Fitzsimmons; Hannah Lloyd-Hartley; Ashleigh Tinlin-Mackenzie; Catherine Scott; Heather Sugden, 2024. Fifty-year study of microplastics ingested by brachyuran and fish larvae in the central English North Sea. Environmental Pollution. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123060
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