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ArticleNature2021

Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams.

Mathis Loïc Messager, Bernhard Lehner, Charlotte Cockburn, Nicolas Lamouroux, Hervé Pella, Ton Snelder, Klement Tockner, Tim Trautmann, Caitlin Watt, Thibault Datry

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing 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

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Warming climate and water withdrawals threaten river flow connectivity in China.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Mathis Loïc MessagerDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. mathis.messager@mail.mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-8068
Bernhard LehnerDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. bernhard.lehner@mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-2581
Charlotte CockburnDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8608-0192
Nicolas LamourouxRiverLY Research Unit, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Villeurbanne, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-2558
Hervé PellaRiverLY Research Unit, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Villeurbanne, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2715-0677
Ton SnelderLWP Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2330-4563
Klement TocknerSenckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Tim TrautmannInstitute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Caitlin WattDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8439-9463
Thibault DatryRiverLY Research Unit, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Villeurbanne, France. thibault.datry@inrae.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1390-6736

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flowing waters have a unique role in supporting global biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles and human societies

Indexed as

Geographic MappingRiversClimateDesiccationHumansHydrologyModels, TheoreticalTime FactorsUncertaintyWater Supply

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