How much variance can be explained by ecologists and evolutionary biologists?

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 492-500

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Jennions, Michael D ^b,c  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecology; Effect size; Evolution; Meta analysis; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; META-ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036932214     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0952-2     Document Type: Article

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