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Ecotoxicology data of coastal plants (Plantago coronopus) following exposure to microplastics and seawater inundation
This dataset contains ecotoxicological measurements of coastal plant species Plantago coronopus, following exposure to microplastics and seawater inundation. The variables measured include mortality, growth, reproductive output, necrosis and photosynthetic efficiency, recorded over a total duration of 64-days. This dataset was created as part of an experiment to investigate the effects of exposure to commercial pre-production biodegradable (polybutylene adipate terephthalate, PBAT) and conventional (Polyethylene terephthalate, PET) microplastics (0.2 % w/w). Work was supported by the NERC funded BIO-PLASTIC-RISK project, grant NE/V007556/1. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/6c95ed4f-bf16-40bb-8a16-ceb56aab1986
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-02
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/6c95ed4f-bf16-40bb-8a16-ceb56aab1986
- Other citation details
- Courtene-Jones, W., Cheung, S.W.H., Thompson, R.C., Hanley, M.E. (2024). Ecotoxicology data of coastal plants (Plantago coronopus) following exposure to microplastics and seawater inundation. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6c95ed4f-bf16-40bb-8a16-ceb56aab1986
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Courtene-Jones, W., Cheung, S.W.H., Thompson, R.C., Hanley, M.E. (2024). Ecotoxicology data of coastal plants (Plantago coronopus) following exposure to microplastics and seawater inundation. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6c95ed4f-bf16-40bb-8a16-ceb56aab1986
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- utf8 UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
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- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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- nonGeographicDataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- A 3 x 2 factorial experiment was conducted to examine the effect of combined exposure to microplastics (3 levels: none/conventional/biodegradable plastics) and seawater inundation (2 levels: presence/absence) affected the growth, stress responses and reproductive potential of P. coronopus (n = 10 per treatment). Throughout the experiment, measures associated with plant health: mortality and proportion of necrotic tissue (visually scored) were recorded. Quantum efficiency of Photosystem II (Fv/Fm) was measured throughout (plant efficiency analyser chlorophyll fluorimeter (Pocket PEA, Hansatech Instruments, UK)). The number of flower spike and the root:shoot ratio were determined when the experiment was terminated. This dataset comprises 2 files Plantago_data.csv, and Plantago_data_necrosis.csv. details of their structure are provided in the accompanying README document.
- File identifier
- 6c95ed4f-bf16-40bb-8a16-ceb56aab1986 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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- nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:20:14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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