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ArticleRoyal Society open science2019

Dive behaviour and foraging effort of female Cape fur seals

S P Kirkman, D P Costa, A-L Harrison, P G H Kotze, W H Oosthuizen, M Weise, J A Botha, J P Y Arnould

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

S P KirkmanOceans and Coastal Research, Department of the Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Bag X4390, Cape Town 8000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5428-7375
D P CostaDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
A-L HarrisonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6213-1765
P G H KotzeOceans and Coastal Research, Department of the Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Bag X4390, Cape Town 8000, South Africa.
W H OosthuizenOceans and Coastal Research, Department of the Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Bag X4390, Cape Town 8000, South Africa.
M WeiseOffice of Naval Research-Code 32, 875 North Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 22203-1995, USA.
J A BothaMarine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa.
J P Y ArnouldSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1124-9330
Nelson Mandela University · ZAUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · USDeakin University · AUOffice of Naval Research · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While marine top predators can play a critical role in ecosystem structure and dynamics through their effects on prey populations, how the predators function in this role is often not well understood. In the Benguela region of southern Africa, the Cape fur seal (

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Identifiers

PMID31824733
PMCPMC6837185
OpenAlexW2980802941

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