Publication Date:
2023-01-30
Description:
Adult blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) were exposed to microplastic particles in a controlled laboratory experiment. Feces was collected after the exposure phase of 2 hours and after 24 and 48 hours of depuration in filtered sea water and the amount of PS beads was determined.
Keywords:
blue mussels; Counting, microscope; effects; fate; GEOMAR_Pier_Mytilus-spp.; HAND; Identification; Microplastic; Microplastic particle concentration; Microplastic particles; Mytilus spp.; PS; Recovery; Reproduction; Sampling by hand; Species; Time in hours
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 84 data points