Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29260802›Full record

ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2017

First, do no harm.

Thomas E Marler, Anders J Lindström

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing 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

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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Thomas E MarlerWestern Pacific Tropical Research Center, University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam, USA.
Anders J LindströmNong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, Sattahip, Chonburi, Thailand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conservation agencies charged with care of threatened plant species should be governed by the concepts that conservation actions should do no harm. Adaptive management research progresses in imperfect situations due to incomplete knowledge. Interpreting new experimental or observational evidence for inclusion in conservation plans should first consider the big picture by identifying collateral quandaries before scaling up the approach to large-scale implementation. We discuss a case study of

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conservationcontext dependencyendangered species recoveryrestoration ecology

Identifiers

PMID29260802
PMCPMC5731506

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