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INTO THE MED: Searching for Microplastics from Space to Deep-Sea

Springer water 2020 8 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Catharina Pieper, Ana Martins, Erik Zettler, Clara Magalhães Loureiro, Victor Onink, Anu Heikkilä, Alexandre Epinoux, Ethan Edson, Vincenzo Donnarumma, Fons de Vogel, Kara Lavender Law, Linda Amaral‐Zettler

Summary

The INTO THE MED project surveyed microplastic distribution across the Mediterranean from surface waters to deep-sea sediments, finding widespread contamination throughout the water column. This multi-depth approach reveals that microplastic pollution is not confined to the ocean surface, with implications for deep-sea ecosystems and the organisms living there.

Microplastics (MP) are defined as “any synthetic solid particle or polymeric matrix, with regular or irregular shape and with size ranging from 1 μm to 5 mm, of either primary or secondary manufacturing origin, which are insoluble in water”.

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