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ArticleOecologia2018

Do grazers respond to or control food quality? Cross-scale analysis of algivorous fish in littoral Lake Tanganyika.

Renalda N Munubi, Peter B McIntyre, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

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Article in Oecologia, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Renalda N MunubiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH, 45435, USA. rmunubi@gmail.com.
Peter B McIntyreCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Yvonne VadeboncoeurDepartment of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH, 45435, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1026-5390
Wright State University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Division of Environmental Biology 0842253Division of Environmental Biology 1030242
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food quality determines the growth rate of primary consumers and ecosystem trophic efficiencies, but it is not clear whether variation in primary consumer densities control, or is controlled by, variation in food quality. We quantified variation in the density and condition of an abundant algae-eating cichlid, Tropheus brichardi, with respect to the quality and productivity of algal biofilms within and across rocky coastal sites in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Adjacent land use and sediment deposition in the littoral zone varied widely among sites. Tropheus brichardi maximized both caloric and phosphorus intake at the local scale by aggregating in shallow habitats: algivore density decreased with depth, tracking attached algae productivity (rETR

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EcosystemLakesAnimalsFishesFood QualityTanzaniaAlgivoreC:N:PFood qualityLittoralMicrophytobenthosPeriphytonProductivitySedimentTropheus

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PMID30099606
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