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SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2022

Tipping points induced by palaeo-human impacts can explain presence of savannah in Malagasy and global systems where forest is expected.

Grant S Joseph, Andrinajoro R Rakotoarivelo, Colleen L Seymour

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Need for shared internal mound conditions by fungus-growingPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Grant S JosephFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8731-9828
Andrinajoro R RakotoariveloAfro-mountain Research Unit, The University of the Free State Qwaqwa, Private Bag X13, Phuthaditjhaba 9866, Republic of South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9318-7465
Colleen L SeymourFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6729-2576
University of Cape Town · ZAUniversity of the Free State · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

EcosystemFiresAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnthropogenic EffectsForestsGrasslandHumansalternate stable statesannual rainfallC4-grassesfireMadagascarsavannah and forest boundary

Identifiers

PMID35350853
PMCPMC8965410
OpenAlexW4220667198

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Registered trials

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