FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Microplastics in Mediterranean Sea: A protocol to robustly assess contamination characteristics
BT 
AF KEDZIERSKI, Mikael
   VILLAIN, Jonathan
   FALCOU-PREFOL, Mathilde
   KERROS, Marie Emmanuelle
   HENRY, Maryvonne
   PEDROTTI, Maria Luiza
   BRUZAUD, Stephane
AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:4;6:3;7:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC;6:;7:;
C1 Univ Bretagne Sud, CNRS, UMR, Inst Rech Dupuy de Lome, Lorient, France.
   Univ Lille, Inst Mines Telecom Lille Douai, Unite Rech Informat & Automat, Lille, France.
   Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, UMR, Lab Oceanog Villefranche Sur Mer, Villefranche Sur Mer, France.
   IFREMER, LER PAC, La Seine Sur Mer, France.
C2 UBS, FRANCE
   UNIV LILLE, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI TOULON
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.74
TC 41
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00481/59305/62058.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00481/59305/62059.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The study of microplastic pollution involves multidisciplinary analyses on a large number of microplastics. Therefore, providing an overview of plastic pollution is time consuming and, despite high throughput analyses, remains a major challenge. The objective of this study is to propose a protocol to determine how many microplastics must be analyzed to give a representative view of the particle size distribution and chemical nature, and calculate the associated margin error. Based on microplastic data from Tara Mediterranean campaign, this approach is explained through different examples. In this particular case, the results show that only 3% of the collected microplastics need to be analyzed to give a precise view on the scale of the North West Mediterranean Basin (error <5%), and 17.7% to give an overview manta per manta (error <10%). This approach could be an important practical contribution to microplastic studies. 
PY 2019
PD FEB
SO Plos One
SN 1932-6203
PU Public Library Science
VL 14
IS 2
UT 000458393400047
DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0212088
ID 59305
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