Microplastic variability in subsurface water from the Arctic to Antarctica

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Pakhomova, Svetlana, Berezina, Anfisa, Lusher, Amy L., Zhdanov, Igor, Silvestrova, Ksenia, Zavialov, Peter, van Bavel, Bert, Yakushev, Evgeniy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Barents Sea; Antarctic Peninsula; East Siberian Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2985853; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118808

Comparative investigations of microplastic (MP) occurrence in the global ocean are often hampered by the application of different methods. In this study, the same sampling and analytical approach was applied during five different cruises to investigate MP covering a route from the East-Siberian Sea...