ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020
Comparative Decomposition of Humans and Pigs: Soil Biogeochemistry, Microbial Activity and Metabolomic Profiles.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Human Decomposition and Time Since Death: Persistent Challenges and Future Directions of Postmortem Interval Estimation in Forensic Anthropology.American journal of biological anthropology · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of burial in containers filled with naturally occurring soil and mine tailings on decomposition: a porcine pilot study.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- Soil microbial gene expression over one year of human decomposition.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- The impact of age and insects factors on cadaver microbial communities and application to postmortem interval Estimation.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Distinct Soil Metabolic Profiles Across Land Management Practices.Metabolites · 2025Article
- Seasonal decomposition and the effect of clothing in Cape Town, South Africa.Journal of forensic sciences · 2025Article
- Temperature and pH dynamics during carcass decomposition and implications for disease management.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evaluating the value of entomotoxicology in forensic toxicology casework using the first minipig model.Forensic toxicology · 2025Article
- Advancing time-since-interval estimation for clandestine graves: a forensic ecogenomics perspective into burial and translocation timelines using massively parallel sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Multimodal Approaches Based on Microbial Data for Accurate Postmortem Interval Estimation.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Transient hypoxia drives soil microbial community dynamics and biogeochemistry during human decomposition.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- A conserved interdomain microbial network underpins cadaver decomposition despite environmental variables.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Environmental predictors impact microbial-based postmortem interval (PMI) estimation models within human decomposition soils.PloS one · 2024Article
- Long-term effects of buried vertebrate carcasses on soil biogeochemistry in the Northern Great Plains.PloS one · 2023Article
- A synthesis of carcass decomposition studies conducted at a tropical (Aw) taphonomy facility: 2013-2022.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
- Soil elemental changes during human decomposition.PloS one · 2023Article
- Body Mass Index (BMI) Impacts Soil Chemical and Microbial Response to Human Decomposition.mSphere · 2022Article
- At the Interface of Life and Death: Post-mortem and Other Applications of Vaginal, Skin, and Salivary Microbiome Analysis in Forensics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Vertebrate decomposition processes have important ecological implications and, in the case of human decomposition, forensic applications. Animals, especially domestic pigs (
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