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ArticleMicroorganisms2021

Ambient Air Pollution Shapes Bacterial and Fungal Ivy Leaf Communities.

Vincent Stevens, Sofie Thijs, Eva Bongaerts, Tim Nawrot, Wouter Marchal, Jonathan Van Hamme, Jaco Vangronsveld

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Article in Microorganisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Vincent StevensCenter for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3725-1597
Sofie ThijsCenter for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2931-9619
Eva BongaertsCenter for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-7963-9824
Tim NawrotCenter for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Wouter MarchalInstitute for Materials Research, Analytical and Circular Chemistry, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Jonathan Van HammeTRUGen Applied Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada.
Jaco VangronsveldCenter for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-8363
Hasselt University · BEMaria Curie-Skłodowska University · PLThompson Rivers University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ambient air pollution exerts deleterious effects on our environment. Continuously exposed to the atmosphere, diverse communities of microorganisms thrive on leaf surfaces, the phylloplane. The composition of these communities is dynamic, responding to many environmental factors including ambient air pollution. In this field study, over a 2 year period, we sampled

Indexed as

ambient air pollutionblack carbonBTX degradationHedera helixmetabarcodingmicrobial communitiesphylloplane

Identifiers

PMID34683409
PMCPMC8540654
OpenAlexW3204278528

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