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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Legume-microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests.

Dimitar Z Epihov, Kristin Saltonstall, Sarah A Batterman, Lars O Hedin, Jefferson S Hall, Michiel van Breugel, Jonathan R Leake, David J Beerling

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Dimitar Z EpihovDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom; d.z.epihov@sheffield.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5711-5480
Kristin SaltonstallSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843 Ancón, Panamá, Panama.ORCID 0000-0002-1811-4087
Sarah A BattermanSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843 Ancón, Panamá, Panama.ORCID 0000-0002-7703-9873
Lars O HedinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0001-7992-1774
Jefferson S HallForest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843 Ancón, Panamá, Panama.ORCID 0000-0003-4761-9268
Michiel van BreugelForest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843 Ancón, Panamá, Panama.ORCID 0000-0003-2778-7803
Jonathan R LeakeDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8364-7616
David J BeerlingDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1869-4314
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · PAUniversity of Sheffield · GBPrinceton University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legume trees form an abundant and functionally important component of tropical forests worldwide with N

Indexed as

ForestsTropical ClimateAcidobacteriaBiomassCarbonFabaceaeFerric CompoundsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMicrobiotaMineralsNitrogenNitrogen FixationNutrientsPanamaPhosphorusSilicatesCarbonFerric CompoundsMineralsNitrogenNutrientsPhosphorusSilicatesSoilAcidobacteriametagenomicsmineral weatheringN2-fixing legume treestropical forest

Identifiers

PMID33836596
PMCPMC7980381
OpenAlexW3135676132

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