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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020

A Fog-Irrigated Soil Substrate System Unifies and Optimizes Cyanobacterial Biocrust Inoculum Production.

Corey Nelson, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Ferran Garcia-Pichel

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Corey NelsonCenter for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Ana Giraldo-SilvaCenter for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Ferran Garcia-PichelCenter for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA ferran@asu.edu.
Arizona State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are globally important microbial communities inhabiting the top layer of soils. They provide multiple services to dryland ecosystems but are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance from which they naturally recover only slowly. Assisted inoculation with cyanobacteria is held as a promising approach to promote biocrust regeneration. Two different methodologies have been developed for this purpose: mass cultivation of biocrust pioneer species (such as the cyanobacteria

Indexed as

Soil MicrobiologyWeatherAgricultural IrrigationBiomassCyanobacteriaMicrobiotabiocrustsbiological soil crustscultivationcyanobacteriadegraded dryland soilssoil restoration

Identifiers

PMID32358005
PMCPMC7301847
OpenAlexW3023318580

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