Shifting settling regimes of clean and biofouled aquatic microplastics in fluvial to marine waters dataset

Freija Mendrik; Roberto Fernández; Christopher Hackney; Catherine Waller; Daniel R. Parsons

doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.21473238

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Shifting settling regimes of clean and biofouled aquatic microplastics in fluvial to marine waters dataset

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Freija Mendrik, Roberto Fernández, Christopher Hackney, Catherine Waller, Daniel R. Parsons

Summary

This dataset accompanies a study examining how biofouling changes the settling behavior of microplastics across freshwater-to-marine salinity gradients. It includes settling experiment results for PET and PVC fragments and fibers across varying salinity and clay concentrations over an 8-week biofouling period.

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PET PVC

Dataset of results for paper "Shifting settling regimes of clean and biofouled aquatic microplastics in fluvial to marine waters". Includes: Settling_exp_results_all - the results from the settling experiments of PET, PVC fragments and NP&A fibres at various salinity and clay concentrations. Time_trials - the settling results for PET over 0-8 weeks as biofouling occurs Expected_calculations - the results from using Ferguson & Church (2004) to predict microplastic settling for PET and PVC fragments

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