TY  - BOOK
AU  - Enders, Kristina
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/08/12
TI  - Analogies between microplastics and natural particles for inventory mapping in aquatic sediments
PB  - Universität Rostock
CY  - Germany; Rostock
AB  - This thesis improves quantification of microplastics (MP) in aquatic sediments by developing comparable, management-relevant inventory estimates. Sediment analyses in two Baltic estuaries (Warnow and Schlei) reveal a robust grain-size–MP relationship, enabling granulometric normalisation that accounts for hydrodynamic bias. A machine-learning–based predictive modelling pipeline uses grain size, water depth and spatio-temporal discontinuity to map MP distributions from limited observations. The work is supported by validated laboratory workflows, novel separation and immobilisation methods.<eng>
UR  - https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00005703
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00005703
DO  - 10.18453/rosdok_id00005703
LA  - English
N1  - vorgelegt von Kristina Enders
ID  - 1981127720
ER  -