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<b>Data From: </b><b>Human land use drives microplastic abundance in terrestrial wildlife</b> Marcia de Almeida Monteiro Melo Ferraz (23578834) Arnaud L.J. Desbiez (24593640) Mario Henrique Alves (20993319) Justin M. Calabrese (190613) Alexandra Tiso Cumerlato (25112272) Fernanda Cristina Jacoby (25112275) Nicole Grechi (25112283) Danilo Kluyber (21355305) Erika Lin (25112284) Marcella Millazotto (25112285) Grazielle Soresini (22686575) Emília Patrícia Medici (7020164) Gabriela F. Mastromonaco (9131818) Michael Noonan (25112145) Ecology not elsewhere classified microplastics gps tracking animal movement ecotoxicology samples <p dir="ltr">This dataset contains the movement, environmental exposure, and microplastic measurement data underlying Ferraz et al., "Human land use drives microplastic abundance in terrestrial wildlife" (<i>Nature</i>). This work combined high-resolution GPS tracking data from lowland tapirs (<i>Tapirus terrestris</i>), giant anteaters (<i>Myrmecophaga tridactyla</i>), and giant armadillos (<i>Priodontes maximus</i>) across three sites in Brazil, with <i>in vivo</i> microplastic measurements (particle counts, concentrations, and polymer identification via confocal Raman spectroscopy) from blood samples collected from the same individuals. For each animal, individual-level exposure metrics from GPS relocation data were derived, including weighted mean and maximum Human Footprint Index (HFI) exposure, home-range size, and distance to the nearest human development and waste management facility, to link movement ecology with systemic microplastic burden. This dataset includes raw and processed particle-level microplastic data, individual movement summaries, environmental covariate layers, and procedural blank control data used for quality assurance and quality control. Data are provided to support reproduction of all analyses reported in the associated manuscript and to enable further research on landscape drivers of microplastic exposure in free-ranging wildlife. See also: <a href="https://github.com/QuantitativeEcologyLab/microplastics_brazil" target="_blank">https://github.com/QuantitativeEcologyLab/microplastics_brazil</a></p> 2026-09-25T21:10:17Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34001445.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_b_Data_From_b_b_Human_land_use_drives_microplastic_abundance_in_terrestrial_wildlife_b_/34001445 CC BY 4.0