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

Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Data sharing is one of the cornerstones of modern science that enables large-scale
analyses and reproducibility. We evaluated data availability in research articles across nine …

In many scientific disciplines, common research practices have led to unreliable and
exaggerated evidence about scientific phenomena. Here we describe some of these …

The FAIR Data Principles propose that all scholarly output should be Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable, and Reusable. As a set of guiding principles, expressing only the kinds of …

There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data.
A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and …

We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their
use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically …

Hydrogen bonds play integral roles in biological structure, function, and conformational
dynamics and are fundamental to life as it has evolved on Earth. However, our …

The partial pressure of CO2 in the oceans has increased rapidly over the past century,
driving ocean acidification and raising concern for the stability of marine ecosystems …

Environmental governance has the potential to be significantly transformed by Smart Earth
technologies, which deploy enhanced environmental monitoring via combinations of …