Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations

Kukkola, Anna; L. Runkel, Robert; Schneidewind, Uwe; F. Murphy, Sheila; Kelleher, Liam; H. Sambrook Smith, Gregory; Nel, Holly; Lynch, Iseult; Krause, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2023.120112

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Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations

Published in Water Research • May 23, 2023

Authors:

Anna Kukkola

Robert L. Runkel

Uwe Schneidewind

Abstract

While microplastic inputs into rivers are assumed to be correlated with anthropogenic activities and to accumulate towards the sea, the impacts of water management on downstream microplastic transport are largely unexplored. A comparative study of microplastic abundance in Boulder Creek (BC), and it...

Subject

Microplastics

Tributary

Environmental science

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