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ArticleNature communications2025

The role of phytoplankton in structuring global oceanic dissolved organic carbon pools.

Zhe Lu, Guoming Qin, Lingling Zheng, Yanyan Zhang, Lincheng Huang, Jinge Zhou, Yongxin Liu, Mianhai Zheng, Enqing Hou, Lirong Song and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 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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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

13 authors.

Zhe LuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Guoming QinGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Lingling ZhengNational Aquatic Biological Resource Center, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China.
Yanyan ZhangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Lincheng HuangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Jinge ZhouGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Yongxin LiuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Mianhai ZhengGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
Enqing HouGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4864-2347
Lirong SongNational Aquatic Biological Resource Center, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China.
Hongbin LiuDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3184-2898
Nianzhi JiaoFujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China.
Faming WangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, Xiaoliang Research Station for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China. wangfm@scbg.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7543-6779

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32301398, 42471067, 32171594
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a major pathway for atmospheric CO

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CarbonPhytoplanktonSeawaterChlorophyll ADiatomsMachine LearningOceans and SeasSeasonsCarbonChlorophyll A

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