Reporting Guidelines to Increase the Reproducibility and Comparability of Research on Microplastics.

ABSTRACT: The ubiquitous pollution of the environment with microplastics, a diverse suite of contaminants, is of growing concern for science and currently receives considerable public, political, and academic attention. The potential impact of microplastics in the environment has prompted a great deal of research in recent years. Many diverse methods have been developed to answer different questions about microplastic pollution, from sources, transport, and fate in the environment, and about effects on humans and wildlife. These methods are often insufficiently described, making studies neither comparable nor reproducible. The proliferation of new microplastic investigations and cross-study syntheses to answer larger scale questions are hampered. This diverse group of 23 researchers think these issu

SUBMITTER: Cowger W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature