Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Despite the buzz around gamification as an exciting new method to engage students,
evidence of its ability to enhance learning is mixed. In fact, gamification has attracted …

Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and
environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest …

Phosphorus (P) limitation of aboveground plant production is usually assumed to occur in
tropical regions but rarely elsewhere. Here we report that such P limitation is more …

Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and
modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis …

Count data can be analyzed using generalized linear mixed models when observations are
correlated in ways that require random effects. However, count data are often zero-inflated …

Research about farmland pollution by heavy metals/metalloids in China has drawn growing
attention. However, there was rare information on spatiotemporal evolution and pollution …

Straw return into agricultural soil is one of the most important management practices in
China. However, the direction and magnitude of crop yield to straw return are inconsistent …

Google Scholar (GS), a commonly used web-based academic search engine, catalogues
between 2 and 100 million records of both academic and grey literature (articles not formally …