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ArticleNature2020

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass.

Emily Elhacham, Liad Ben-Uri, Jonathan Grozovski, Yinon M Bar-On, Ron Milo

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing 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

68 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  9. Accelerated north-east shift of the global green wave trajectory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors.

Emily ElhachamDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-0335
Liad Ben-UriDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Jonathan GrozovskiDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Yinon M Bar-OnDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Ron MiloDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. ron.milo@weizmann.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-2299

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humanity has become a dominant force in shaping the face of Earth

Indexed as

BiomassInternationalityLifeAnimalsConstruction MaterialsHuman ActivitiesHumansManufactured MaterialsPlants

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