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ArticleNature2026

Small persistent humid forest clearings drive tropical forest biomass losses.

Yidi Xu, Philippe Ciais, Maurizio Santoro, Clément Bourgoin, François Ritter, Agnès Pellissier-Tanon, Yu Feng, Chuanlong Zhou, Guojin He, Viola Heinrich and 12 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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

  1. 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

22 authors.

Yidi XuLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1528-4256
Philippe CiaisLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. philippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-8560-4943
Maurizio SantoroGamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3339-6991
Clément BourgoinEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4923-3035
François RitterLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Agnès Pellissier-TanonLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Yu FengLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6433-5035
Chuanlong ZhouLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Guojin HeAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0009-0001-0128-8582
Viola HeinrichGFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0501-0032
Simon BesnardGFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1137-103X
Nathaniel RobinsonCIFOR-ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID 0000-0002-8055-5270
Susan C Cook-PattonThe Nature Conservancy, Natural Climate Solutions Team, Arlington, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7194-4397
Jérôme ChaveCentre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7766-1347
Luiz E O C AragaoNational Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José Dos Campos, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-4134-6708
Jean P OmettoNational Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José Dos Campos, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-4221-1039
Simon P K BowringLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0041-0937
Ibrahim FayadLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Lei ZhuDepartment of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2146-6438
Yang SuLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4717-9971
Jean-Pierre WigneronISPA, UMR 1391, INRAE Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Sciences Agro (BSA), Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Villenave d'Ornon, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5345-3618
Wei LiDepartment of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. wli2019@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-2543-2558

Funding

CALIPSOSchmidt Science. P.C.Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Project at Southwest United Graduate School
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tropical forests store about half of the global forest aboveground carbon (AGC)

Indexed as

BiomassConservation of Natural ResourcesForestsTropical ClimateCarbonFiresForestryHumidityTreesCarbon

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