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Data and code for the publication "Flooding frequency and floodplain topography determine abundance of microplastics in an alluvial Rhine soil"
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This is a companion data and code repository for the same Rhine floodplain microplastic study. The dataset covers soil properties and microplastic abundance measured at multiple depths and locations across the floodplain near Cologne, Germany.
Background The dataset contains data on soil properties and microplastic abundance in soil samples taken in Langel-Merkenich (Cologne, Germany). It was analysed in the paper by M. Rolf, H. Laermanns, L. Kienzler, C. Pohl, J.N. Möller, C. Laforsch, M.G.J. Löder and C. Bogner, “Flooding frequency and floodplain topography determine abundance of microplastics in an alluvial Rhine soil” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155141) published in Science of the Total Environment. Description of the dataset The zipped folder data.zip contains subfolders imagelab_data (contains microplastics data by depth and the blanks), additional_data (weights of aliquots and polymer densities) and soil_data (data on soil properties and images of soil profiles). images.zip contains the workflow diagram, which is plotted in the R notebook Data_read_in.Rmd. results.zip contains the results of reading and wrangling of microplastics data. Description of the code The R notebooks *.Rmd contain the code to read and wrangle the microplastics data (Data_read_in_corrected.Rmd), analyse and plot it (Analysis_plots_MP.Rmd) and plot data on soil properties (Plots_soil_data.Rmd). Disclaimer The data and code are provided as is without any warranty. Funding Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) -– Project Number 391977956 –- SFB 1357. References M. Rolf, H. Laermanns, L. Kienzler, C. Pohl, J.N. Möller, C. Laforsch, M.G.J. Löder and C. Bogner, “Flooding frequency and floodplain topography determine abundance of microplastics in an alluvial Rhine soil” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155141 R Core Team, 2021, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, https://www.R-project.org/
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