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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Populations are not declining and food webs are not collapsing at the Luquillo Experimental Forest.

M R Willig, L Woolbright, S J Presley, T D Schowalter, R B Waide, T Heartsill Scalley, J K Zimmerman, G González, A E Lugo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Nonlinear trends in abundance and diversity and complex responses to climate change in Arctic arthropods.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  10. Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  11. Arthropods are not declining but are responsive to disturbance in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  14. Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  16. Reply to Willig et al.: Long-term population trends in the Luquillo Rainforest.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

M R WilligInstitute of the Environment, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4210.
L WoolbrightBiology Department, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211.
S J PresleyInstitute of the Environment, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4210.
T D SchowalterDepartment of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
R B WaideDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001.
T Heartsill ScalleyInternational Institute of Tropical Forestry, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00926.
J K ZimmermanDepartment of Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00936-8377.
G GonzálezInternational Institute of Tropical Forestry, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00926.
A E LugoInternational Institute of Tropical Forestry, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00926; alugo@fs.fed.us.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMCPMC6589750

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