Meso- and microplastic distribution and heavy metal contaminations in floodplains of the Nidda River (Germany)

The datasets stored here contain the raw data for the publication about macro- and microplastic within the Nidda River floodplain soilscape by Weber et al. (2022). These are data sets on meso- and microplastic particles, as well as analytical data from floodplain soil samples and a .kml file with sampling points positions. Dataset 1: Plastic particle data and characteristics from plastic particles extracted via NaCl-separation, fluorescence staining and ATR-FTIR analysis. Dataset 2: Sampling site features, plastic concentrations, elemental concentrations, pollution indices and soil characteristics (texture, organic matter, pH) Each data set contains a sheet with data and an explanation sheet. KML File: Location of sampling points.