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

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 …

Natural light cycles are being eroded over large areas of the globe by the direct emissions
and sky brightening that result from sources of artificial night-time light. This is predicted to …

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 …

Body size determines total reproductive-energy output. Most theories assume reproductive
output is a fixed proportion of size, with respect to mass, but formal macroecological tests are …

The notion that certain animal groups disproportionately maintain and transmit viruses to
humans due to broad-scale differences in ecology, life history, and physiology currently …

For over 300 million years, insects have relied on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and
defence. However, it is unclear whether specific ecological conditions have repeatedly …

Aim The number of studies investigating the nestedness and turnover components of beta
diversity has increased substantially, but our general understanding of the drivers of …

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 …

In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological
foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such sex differences are also …