ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis of carbon losses and gains from tropical moist forest degradation and regeneration.Science advances · 2026Pooled it
- Towards Right Answer for the Right Reasons in Global Land Carbon Sink Estimates.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Trade-Offs Between Carbon and Water Fluxes Along a Land Use Intensity Gradient in Southeast Asian Forests and Plantations.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Mapping the density of giant trees in the Amazon.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Timber and trails: Low-intensity selective logging and elephant trails shape seedling dynamics in an Afrotropical forest.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Logging disrupts the ecology of molecules in headwater streams.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem COThe New phytologist · 2025Article
- Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation.Nature communications · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
15 authors at 11 institutions in 5 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most prevalent land-use types throughout the tropics and are routinely assumed to be a net carbon sink because they experience rapid rates of tree regrowth. Yet this assumption is based on forest biomass inventories that record carbon stock recovery but fail to account for the simultaneous losses of carbon from soil and necromass. Here, we used forest plots and an eddy covariance tower to quantify and partition net ecosystem CO
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.