Spatio-temporal dynamics and explainable machine learning classification of microplastics in the eastern tropical Pacific: Evidence from a decade-long (2008-2018) particle-level dataset.
Microplastic pollution is an increasing threat to marine ecosystems worldwide. Here we present a detailed particle-level analysis of a unique long-term dataset (Bermúdez, 2025) containing 16,179 individually measured microplastic particles from 141 plankton-net samples collected over 11 years (2008-2018) at four statio...