Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33762765›Full record

SynthesisNature2021

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO

C Terrer, R P Phillips, B A Hungate, J Rosende, J Pett-Ridge, M E Craig, K J van Groenigen, T F Keenan, B N Sulman, B D Stocker and 10 more

Abstract readMeta-Analysis
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

91 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Elevated COFrontiers in plant science · 2025
    Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Pooled it
  6. Pooled it
  7. Pooled it
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Rhizodeposition Drives One Third of Belowground Carbon Input in Agroecosystems.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Article
  20. Elevated CONature communications · 2026
    Article

31 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

20 authors.

C TerrerPhysical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. terrer@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-3486
R P PhillipsDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1345-4138
B A HungateCenter for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-1887
J RosendeInstitut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2550-9260
J Pett-RidgePhysical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4439-2398
M E CraigDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
K J van GroenigenDepartment of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9165-3925
T F KeenanDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3347-0258
B N SulmanEnvironmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3265-6691
B D StockerDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
P B ReichDepartment of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4424-662X
A F A PellegriniDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0418-4129
E PendallHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1651-8969
H ZhangEnvironmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
R D EvansSchool of Biological Sciences and the Stable Isotope Core Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
Y CarrilloHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8726-4601
J B FisherJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
K Van SundertPlants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Biology Department, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Sara ViccaPlants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Biology Department, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9812-5837
R B JacksonDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-7147

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Terrestrial ecosystems remove about 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide (CO

Indexed as

Carbon SequestrationBiomassCarbon DioxideGrasslandModels, BiologicalPlantsSoilCarbon DioxideSoil

Identifiers

PMID33762765

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.