Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of microplastics in marine organisms: A review and meta-analysis of current data
Fig 2
Body burden of bioaccumulated microplastics individual-1 estimated for different trophic levels, based on reports for marine species collected in situ (a) 1 to 2.9, (b) 3 to 3.9, and (c) 4 to 4.5, and exposed in laboratory experiments (d) 2 to 3.7. Data have been organised to show the minimum, first quartile, median, mean (X), third quartile, maximum and outliers (°). Trophic levels have been grouped into to a single decimal place, e.g. level 4.2 includes 4.21 to 4.29. Note different scales on y-axes in panels a-c) compared to panel d).