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ArticleGlobal change biology2022

Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass.

Gerrit Angst, Jan Frouz, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Stefan Scheu, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Nico Eisenhauer

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Article in Global change biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Gerrit AngstGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4421-5444
Jan FrouzBiology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology & SoWa Research Infrastructure, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-0908-8606
Jan Willem van GroenigenSoil Biology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9637-0601
Stefan ScheuJohann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4350-9520
Ingrid Kögel-KnabnerTUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7216-8326
Nico EisenhauerGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0371-6720

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial necromass is a central component of soil organic matter (SOM), whose management may be essential in mitigating atmospheric CO

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OligochaetaSoilAnimalsBiomassCarbonSoil MicrobiologyCarbonSoilaggregatescarbon sequestrationcastsconcepthotspotorgano-mineral associationssubstrate quality

Identifiers

PMID35543252
PMCPMC9544240

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