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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Reply to Walsh et al.: Hexagonal patterns of Australian fairy circles develop without correlation to termitaria.

Stephan Getzin, Hezi Yizhaq, Bronwyn Bell, Todd E Erickson, Anthony C Postle, Itzhak Katra, Omer Tzuk, Yuval R Zelnik, Kerstin Wiegand, Thorsten Wiegand and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. 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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Stephan GetzinDepartment of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; stephan.getzin@ufz.de.
Hezi YizhaqDepartment of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Beer Sheva 84990, Israel; The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Tamar Regional Council, Israel;
Bronwyn BellEnvironmental Management, Rio Tinto, Perth, 6850 WA, Australia;
Todd E EricksonSchool of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 WA, Australia; Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, Kings Park, 6005 WA, Australia;
Anthony C PostlePrivate address, Cairns, 4870 QLD, Australia;
Itzhak KatraDepartment of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel;
Omer TzukPhysics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel;
Yuval R ZelnikDepartment of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Beer Sheva 84990, Israel;
Kerstin WiegandDepartment of Ecosystem Modelling, University of Goettingen, 37077 Goettingen, Germany;
Thorsten WiegandDepartment of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Ehud MeronDepartment of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Beer Sheva 84990, Israel; Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel;

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID27588904
PMCPMC5027457

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