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This submission belongs to the session S3. Conservation Biology of the event The 1st International Online Conference on Biology
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05 Feb, 2026
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author-avatarEttore Randi
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Diana Lucía Buitrago Torres, Eduardo Efraín Quintero-López, Gilberto Pozo Montuy, Scattered Data, Inconsistent Methods: The Fragmented State of Terrestrial Microplastic Research in Wild Mammals, in Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Biology, 10 February–12 February 2026, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland
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Scattered Data, Inconsistent Methods: The Fragmented State of Terrestrial Microplastic Research in Wild Mammals

Diana Lucía Buitrago Torres 1,2
Eduardo Efraín Quintero-López 2,3,4
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1. Conservación de la Biodiversidad del Usumacinta (COBIUS), Carretera Balancán–Tulipán km 12, Ranchería Leona Vicario, Balancán, 86936 Tabasco, Mexico
2. Research Group on Evolution and Conservation of Neotropical Tetrapods (ECONET), Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, 630001 Quindío, Colombia
3. Biology Program, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Technologies, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, 630001 Quindío, Colombia
4. Research Group in Evolution, Ecology and Conservation (EECO), Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, 630001 Quindío, Colombia
Abstract
Keywords
Environmental monitoring
Fecal analysis
Microplastic ingestion
Terrestrial contamination
Wildlife pollution.