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ArticlePeerJ2020

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape?

Christopher G Marston, David M Wilkinson, Matt Sponheimer, Daryl Codron, Jacqui Codron, Hannah J O'Regan

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Article in PeerJ, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Intrataxonomic trends in herbivore enamel δNature ecology & evolution · 2021
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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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Christopher G MarstonLand Use Group, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster, UK.
David M WilkinsonSchool of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Matt SponheimerDepartment of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8743-1123
Daryl CodronDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Jacqui CodronCentre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Hannah J O'ReganDepartment of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
University of Nottingham · GBUniversity of the Free State · ZAUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology · GBUniversity of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Examination of the feeding habits of mammalian species such as the African elephant (

Indexed as

Behavioural ecologyDietElephantIsotopeKruger National ParkLandsatRemote sensing

Identifiers

PMID32117638
PMCPMC7035871
OpenAlexW3007059044

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Registered trials

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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.