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Readme:East Asian seas: a hot spot of pelagic microplastics

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This is the readme file for a dataset of microplastic abundance data from a study of East Asian seas, which are identified as a hotspot for pelagic microplastics in the source paper. The file describes the data format and provides instructions for accessing the accompanying data table.

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