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ArticleScientific reports2017

New sedimentary evidence reveals a unique history of C

Bin Zhou, Michael Bird, Hongbo Zheng, Enlou Zhang, Christopher M Wurster, Luhua Xie, David Taylor

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Grassland fire ecology has roots in the late Miocene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bin ZhouKey Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. zhoubinok@nju.edu.cn.
Michael BirdCollege of Science and engineering and Centre for Tropical environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
Hongbo ZhengSchool of Resource, Environment and Earth Science, Yunnan University, Chenggong District, Kunming, China.
Enlou ZhangState Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Christopher M WursterCollege of Science and engineering and Centre for Tropical environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
Luhua XieCAS Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
David TaylorDepartment of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) and n-alkane data from sediments in the northern South China Sea reveal variations in material from C

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PMID28279022
PMCPMC5428023

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