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ArticleAstrobiology2022

Nitrogen Cycling and Biosignatures in a Hyperarid Mars Analog Environment.

Jianxun Shen, Aubrey L Zerkle, Mark W Claire

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Article in Astrobiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jianxun ShenSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3942-1692
Aubrey L ZerkleSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2324-1619
Mark W ClaireSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9518-089X
University of St Andrews · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hyperarid Atacama Desert is a unique Mars-analog environment with a large near-surface soil nitrate reservoir due to the lack of rainfall leaching for millennia. We investigated nitrogen (N) cycling and organic matter dynamics in this nitrate-rich terrestrial environment by analyzing the concentrations and isotopic compositions of nitrate, organic C, and organic N, coupled with microbial pathway-enzyme inferences, across a naturally occurring rainfall gradient. Nitrate deposits in sites with an annual precipitation of <10 mm carry atmospheric δ

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Extraterrestrial EnvironmentMarsEnvironmental MonitoringNitratesNitrogenNitrogen CycleOxygen IsotopesNitratesNitrogenOxygen IsotopesEnzyme pathway inferencesModelsN cyclingNitrate stable isotopesOrganic isotopes

Identifiers

PMID34652219
PMCPMC8861911
OpenAlexW3205066626

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