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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2012

Systems approaches in global change and biogeochemistry research.

Pete Smith, Fabrizio Albanito, Madeleine Bell, Jessica Bellarby, Sergey Blagodatskiy, Arindam Datta, Marta Dondini, Nuala Fitton, Helen Flynn, Astley Hastings and 18 more

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2012. 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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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Predictive ecology: systems approaches.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

Pete SmithInstitute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, 23 St Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK. pete.smith@abdn.ac.uk
Fabrizio Albanito
Madeleine Bell
Jessica Bellarby
Sergey Blagodatskiy
Arindam Datta
Marta Dondini
Nuala Fitton
Helen Flynn
Astley Hastings
Jon Hillier
Edward O Jones
Matthias Kuhnert
Dali R Nayak
Mark Pogson
Mark Richards
Gosia Sozanska-Stanton
Shifeng Wang
Jagadeesh B Yeluripati
Emily Bottoms
Chris Brown
Jenny Farmer
Diana Feliciano
Cui Hao
Andy Robertson
Sylvia Vetter
Hon Man Wong
Jo Smith

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systems approaches have great potential for application in predictive ecology. In this paper, we present a range of examples, where systems approaches are being developed and applied at a range of scales in the field of global change and biogeochemical cycling. Systems approaches range from Bayesian calibration techniques at plot scale, through data assimilation methods at regional to continental scales, to multi-disciplinary numerical model applications at country to global scales. We provide examples from a range of studies and show how these approaches are being used to address current topics in global change and biogeochemical research, such as the interaction between carbon and nitrogen cycles, terrestrial carbon feedbacks to climate change and the attribution of observed global changes to various drivers of change. We examine how transferable the methods and techniques might be to other areas of ecosystem science and ecology.

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CarbonClimate ChangeEcologyEcosystemNitrogenSystems BiologyCarbonNitrogen

Identifiers

PMID22144393
PMCPMC3223799

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