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ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2025

Temporarily trapped: stormwater pond sediment is a key transient sink for microplastic debris.

Patricia L Corcoran, Alexa Holland, Kelly Evans, Nina Kozikowski, Rebecca Sarazen

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Article in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sedimentology of plastics: state of the art and future directions.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
    Article
  2. Temporarily trapped: stormwater pond sediment is a key transient sink for microplastic debris.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Patricia L CorcoranDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 0J3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3011-1433
Alexa HollandDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 0J3, Canada.
Kelly EvansDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 0J3, Canada.
Nina KozikowskiSurface Science Western, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 0J3, Canada.
Rebecca SarazenSurface Science Western, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 0J3, Canada.

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Average microplastic (MP) abundances in each of 15 stormwater ponds in London, Canada ranged from 0.7 ± 0.7 particles per gram of dry weight sediment (g

Indexed as

CanadaFTIRGreat Lakes watershedland usemicroplasticsrubberstormwater

Identifiers

PMID41126623
PMCPMC12547433

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