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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019

Leaf-cutter ants engineer large nitrous oxide hot spots in tropical forests.

Fiona M Soper, Benjamin W Sullivan, Brooke B Osborne, Alanna N Shaw, Laurent Philippot, Cory C Cleveland

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fiona M Soper1 Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana , Missoula, MT 59812 , USA.
Benjamin W Sullivan2 Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada , Reno, NV 89557 , USA.
Brooke B Osborne3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University , Providence, RI 02912 , USA.
Alanna N Shaw1 Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana , Missoula, MT 59812 , USA.
Laurent Philippot4 INRA , UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Dijon , France.
Cory C Cleveland1 Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana , Missoula, MT 59812 , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though tropical forest ecosystems are among the largest natural sources of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N

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RainforestAnimalsAntsCosta RicaFeeding BehaviorNitrous OxideSoilNitrous OxideSoilAtta colombicadenitrificationecosystem engineerslowland rainforestnitrogenwaste management

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PMID30963857
PMCPMC6367188

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