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Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, August 2016
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Title
Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity
Published in
Nature Communications, August 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms12491
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Authors

Andrew J. Trant, Wiebe Nijland, Kira M. Hoffman, Darcy L. Mathews, Duncan McLaren, Trisalyn A. Nelson, Brian M. Starzomski

Abstract

Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia's coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. This is particularly the case over the last 6,000 years when intensified intertidal shellfish usage resulted in the accumulation of substantial shell middens. We show that soils at habitation sites are higher in calcium and phosphorous. Both of these are limiting factors in coastal temperate rainforests. Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) trees growing on the middens were found to be taller, have higher wood calcium, greater radial growth and exhibit less top die-back. Coastal British Columbia is the first known example of long-term intertidal resource use enhancing forest productivity and we expect this pattern to occur at archaeological sites along coastlines globally.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Japan 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 155 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 27 17%
Student > Master 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 15%
Researcher 23 14%
Other 11 7%
Other 19 12%
Unknown 31 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 46 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 22%
Social Sciences 13 8%
Arts and Humanities 8 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 4%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 40 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 327. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 March 2020.
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#103,155
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#1,498
of 57,717 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,200
of 348,703 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#32
of 867 outputs
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