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ArticleNature2025

Causal claims, causal assumptions and protected area impact.

Jonas Geldmann, Julia P G Jones, Hannah Wauchope, Paul J Ferraro

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Evaluating protected areas' coverage of threats to terrestrial biodiversity.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025
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  5. Agroecology benefits people and planet.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonas GeldmannCenter for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. jgeldmann@sund.ku.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1191-7610
Julia P G JonesSchool of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5199-3335
Hannah WauchopeSchool of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5370-4616
Paul J FerraroCarey Business School and the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, a joint department of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4777-5108

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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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.