Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension

RE O'Dea, M Lagisz, MD Jennions… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses

S Nakagawa, M Lagisz, MD Jennions… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Publication bias threatens the validity of quantitative evidence from meta‐analyses as it
results in some findings being overrepresented in meta‐analytic datasets because they are …

Agrochemicals interact synergistically to increase bee mortality

H Siviter, EJ Bailes, CD Martin, TR Oliver, J Koricheva… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Global concern over widely documented declines in pollinators,–has led to the identification
of anthropogenic stressors that, individually, are detrimental to bee populations …

A meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration

J Su, DA Friess, A Gasparatos - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Mangrove restoration has become a popular strategy to ensure the critical functions and
economic benefits of this ecosystem. This study conducts a meta-analysis of the peer …

Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions

P Pottier, S Burke, RY Zhang, DWA Noble… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors affecting thermal tolerance is crucial for predicting the impact
climate change will have on ectotherms. However, the role developmental plasticity plays in …

Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: a global meta‐analysis

J Atkinson, LA Brudvig, M Mallen‐Cooper… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration projects often have variable and unpredictable outcomes, and these
can limit the overall impact on biodiversity. Previous syntheses have investigated restoration …

Meta-evaluation of meta-analysis: ten appraisal questions for biologists

S Nakagawa, DWA Noble, AM Senior, M Lagisz - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Meta-analysis is a statistical procedure for analyzing the combined data from different
studies, and can be a major source of concise up-to-date information. The overall …

Global effects of non‐native tree species on multiple ecosystem services

P Castro‐Díez, AS Vaz, JS Silva, M Van Loo… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native tree (NNT) species have been transported worldwide to create or enhance
services that are fundamental for human well‐being, such as timber provision, erosion …

Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities

MKL Wong, RK Didham - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Insects sustain key ecosystem functions, but how their activity varies across the day–night
cycle and the underlying drivers are poorly understood. Although entomologists generally …

Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences

S Nakagawa, Y Yang, EL Macartney, R Spake… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Meta-analysis is a quantitative way of synthesizing results from multiple studies to obtain
reliable evidence of an intervention or phenomenon. Indeed, an increasing number of meta …