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Figure 2. Boxplot of DEHT (blue) and DINP (red) in all substrate/residue mixtures (ng/g wet weight) during the rearing experiments of 10 days. The data is based on all samples generated within one treatment (n = 30 per treatment). The control substrate/residue mixture did not contain plastics, while the other substrate/residue mixtures contained macroplastics (w = 5%), or meso- or microplastics (w = 1%). The horizontal white lines represent the median concentration, while statistical differences (P < 0.05) are depicted with an asterisk (*) for DEHT regarding the macroplastics and with two asterisks (**) for DEHT concerning the mesoplastics. The boxes represent the lower and upper quartiles. The whiskers represent the maximum values, while the dots depict the outliers of the dataset.