Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31740758›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2019

Effect of biochar addition on leaf-litter decomposition at soil surface during three years in a warm-temperate secondary deciduous forest, Japan.

Yukiya Minamino, Nobuhide Fujitake, Takeshi Suzuki, Shinpei Yoshitake, Hiroshi Koizumi, Mitsutoshi Tomotsune

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
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

6 authors.

Yukiya MinaminoGraduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.
Nobuhide FujitakeGraduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4089-1579
Takeshi SuzukiGraduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.
Shinpei YoshitakeTakayama Field Station, River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, 919-47, Iwaimachi, Takayama, Gifu, 506-0815, Japan.
Hiroshi KoizumiFaculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsucho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan.
Mitsutoshi TomotsuneFaculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsucho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan. tomo.32104@aoni.waseda.jp.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The addition of biochar to the forest floor should facilitate efficient carbon sequestration. However, little is known about how biochar addition effects litter decomposition, which is related to carbon and nutrient dynamics in forest ecosystems. This study evaluated the effect of biochar addition on leaf litter decomposition in a forest ecosystem. To examine whether leaf litter decomposition was stimulated above and below biochar, litterbag experiments were carried out for about 3 years in a field site where biochar was added at the rate of 0, 5 and 10 t ha

Identifiers

PMID31740758
PMCPMC6861223

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.