Publication Date:
2024-01-26
Description:
These datasets comprise data obtained during a 42 week-long exposure experiment of Mytilus spp. to two types of microplastics, namely spherical polystyrene (PS) particles and irregular polyvinylchloride (PVC) particles. This data was obtained from January 2018 to January 2019 from juvenile blue mussels with an initial size of 10mm. We recorded growth via shell length. Growth was measured every six weeks already during a three months acclimation period without exposure to microplastics. Mussels were exposed to three concentrations of PS (15, 1500, 15 000 particles/individual/week) and five concentrations of PVC (15, 1500, 15 000, 150 000 and 1 500 000 particles/individual/week) and one group to no particles at all as control.
Keywords:
blue mussels; effects; Experimental treatment; Identification; irregular; Microplastic; Mytilus; PS; PVC; Shell length; Species; spherical; Time in weeks; Treatment: microplastic particles, per individual
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 17218 data points
