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ReviewNature communications2020

Redox-informed models of global biogeochemical cycles.

Emily J Zakem, Martin F Polz, Michael J Follows

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Review in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Duration of OEnvironmental science & technology · 2025
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  10. The proteome is a terminal electron acceptor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Ecological dynamics explain modular denitrification in the ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  14. Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024
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  17. Microbial functional diversity across biogeochemical provinces in the central Pacific Ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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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

3 authors.

Emily J ZakemDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA. zakem@usc.edu.
Martin F PolzDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Michael J FollowsDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial activity mediates the fluxes of greenhouse gases. However, in the global models of the marine and terrestrial biospheres used for climate change projections, typically only photosynthetic microbial activity is resolved mechanistically. To move forward, we argue that global biogeochemical models need a theoretically grounded framework with which to constrain parameterizations of diverse microbial metabolisms. Here, we explain how the key redox chemistry underlying metabolisms provides a path towards this goal. Using this first-principles approach, the presence or absence of metabolic functional types emerges dynamically from ecological interactions, expanding model applicability to unobserved environments."Nothing is less real than realism. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things." -Georgia O'Keefe.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationGlobal WarmingGreenhouse EffectOxidation-ReductionBacteriaEcologyEcosystemGreenhouse GasesMethaneModels, TheoreticalNitrous OxideGreenhouse GasesMethaneNitrous Oxide

Identifiers

PMID33173062
PMCPMC7656242

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