Vertical distribution and migration of microplastics in soils from Fars Province, Southwest Iran

Shekoufeh Forouzan; Sajjad Abbasi; Ali Akbar Moosavi; Majid Baghernejad; Sayyed Mahmoud Enjavinezhad; Andrew Turner

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333572

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Vertical distribution and migration of microplastics in soils from Fars Province, Southwest Iran

Shekoufeh Forouzan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Sajjad Abbasi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sajjad.abbasi@shirazu.ac.ir, sajjad.abbasi@cnrs.fr, sajjad.abbasi.h@gmail.com (SA); aamousavi@gmail.com, aamousavi@shirazu.ac.ir (AAM)

Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-9334

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Ali Akbar Moosavi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sajjad.abbasi@shirazu.ac.ir, sajjad.abbasi@cnrs.fr, sajjad.abbasi.h@gmail.com (SA); aamousavi@gmail.com, aamousavi@shirazu.ac.ir (AAM)

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Majid Baghernejad,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Sayyed Mahmoud Enjavinezhad,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Andrew Turner

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
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Vertical distribution and migration of microplastics in soils from Fars Province, Southwest Iran

Shekoufeh Forouzan,
Sajjad Abbasi,
Ali Akbar Moosavi,
Majid Baghernejad,
Sayyed Mahmoud Enjavinezhad,
Andrew Turner

Published: June 5, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333572

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