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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Ancient deforestation in the green heart of Africa.

Yadvinder Malhi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
    Article
  2. Human behaviour and climate-linked fluctuations in the rainforests of West-Central Africa.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yadvinder MalhiEnvironmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom yadvinder.malhi@ouce.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-3503-4783

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesTreesAfrica

Identifiers

PMID29549154
PMCPMC5879717

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