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How to take representative samples to quantify microplastic particles in soil
Yingxue Yu,Markus Flury +1 more
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It is recommended to take replicated samples with each sample as large as possible rather than multiple small cores, and then reduce the soil volume by the quartering method, to ensure an accurate measurement of plastic concentrations.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2021-08-25. It has received 10 citations till now.read more
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Macro- and microplastic accumulation in soil after 32 years of plastic film mulching.
Shitong Li,Fan Ding,Markus Flury,Zhan-yin Wang,Li Xu,Shuangyi Li,Davey L. Jones,Jingkuan Wang +7 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors characterized and quantified the amount of macro- and micro-plastics accumulated after 32 years of continuous plastic mulch film use in an agricultural field, and found about 10 times more macroplastic particles in the fertilized plots than in the non-fertilized plots.
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In-field degradation of soil-biodegradable plastic mulch films in a Mediterranean climate.
Deirdre E. Griffin-LaHue,Shuresh Ghimire,Yingxue Yu,Edward Scheenstra,Carol A. Miles,Markus Flury +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the in-field degradation of soil-biodegradable plastic mulches following successive applications and incorporation, and quantifying mulch recovery 2 years after the final incorporation was quantified every 6 months until fall 2020.
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In-field degradation of soil-biodegradable plastic mulch films in a Mediterranean climate
TL;DR: In this paper , the in-field degradation of soil-biodegradable plastic mulches following successive applications and incorporations was quantified using a zeroth-order kinetics model.
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The statistical power of post-fire soil-hydraulic property studies: Are we collecting sufficient infiltration measurements after wildland fires?
TL;DR: In this article , parametric and nonparametric statistical approaches are used to assess the primary influences on the statistical power and whether the N is sufficient to achieve a representative power of 0.9 at the as-sampled N, suggesting the need for post-fire infiltration studies to collect more measurements.
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Opening Space for Plastics—Why Spatial, Soil and Land Use Data Are Important to Understand Global Soil (Micro)Plastic Pollution
Collin J. Weber,Moritz Bigalke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the availability of spatial MP soil data on a global scale through the application of a questionnaire applied to 35 case studies on microplastics in soils published since 2016 is evaluated.
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