Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 897-902

  Lortie, Christopher J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION;

EID: 84904263309     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00970.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Cadotte, M. W. et al. 2012. Gauging the impact of meta-analysis on ecology. - Evol. Ecol. 26: 1153-1167.
2. Carpenter, S. R. et al. 2009. Accelerate synthesis in ecology and environmental sciences. - Bioscience 59: 699-701.
3. Castellanos, M. C. and Verdu, M. 2012. Meta-analysis of meta-analyses in plant evolutionary ecology. - Evol. Ecol. 26: 1187-1196.
4. Chaudhary, V. B. et al. 2010. Advancing synthetic ecology: a database system to facilitate complex ecological meta-analyses. - Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 91: 235-243.
5. Cote, I. M. and Jennions, M. D. 2013. The procedure of meta-analysis in a nutshell. - In: Koricheva, J. et al. (eds), Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 14-26.
6. Cottingham, K. L. et al. 2005. Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments. - Front. Ecol. Environ. 3: 145-152.
7. Gates, S. 2002. Review of methodology of quantitative reviews using meta-analysis in ecology. - J. Anim. Ecol. 71: 547-557.
8. Gurevitch, J. and Hedges, L. V. 2001. Meta-analysis: combining the results of independent experiments. - In: Gurevitch, J. (ed.), Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 347-369.
9. Hampton, S. E. and Parker, J. N. 2011. Collaboration and productivity in scientific synthesis. - Bioscience 61: 900-910.
10. Hampton, S. E. et al. 2013. Big data and the future of ecology.- Front. Ecol. Environ. 11: 156-162.
11. Higgins, J. P. T. and Green, S. 2009. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. Ver. 5.0.2 [updated September 2009].
12. Jennions, M. D. and Møller, A. P. 2002. Relationships fade with time: a meta-analysis of temporal trends in publication in ecology and evolution. - Proc. R. Soc. B 269: 43-48.
13. Jennions, M. D. et al. 2013. Role of meta-analyses in interpreting the scientific literature. - In: Koricheva, J. et al. (eds), Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 364-380.
14. Koricheva, J. and Gurevitch, J. 2013. Place of meta-analysis among other methods of research synthesis. - In: Koricheva, J. et al. (eds), Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 3-13.
15. Koricheva, J. et al. 2013. Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. - Princeton Univ. Press.
16. Kotiaho, J. S. and Tomkins, J. L. 2002. Meta-analysis, can it ever fail? - Oikos 96: 551-553.
17. Lortie, C. J. and Callaway, R. M. 2006. Re-analysis of meta-analysis: a test of the stress-gradient hypothesis. - J. Ecol. 94: 7-16.
18. Lortie, C. J. et al. 2013. Graphical presentation of results. - In: Koricheva, J. et al. (eds), Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 339-347.
19. Michener, W. K. et al. 2012. Participatory design of DataONE - enabling cyberinfrastructure for the biological and environmental sciences. - Ecol. Inf. 11: 5-15.
20. Moher, D. et al. 2009. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. - BMJ 339: b2535.
21. Møller, A. P. and Jennions, M. D. 2001. Testing and adjusting for publication bias. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 16: 580-586.
22. Oksanen, L. 2001. Logic of experiments in ecology: is pseudoreplication a pseudoissue? - Oikos 94: 27-38.
23. Pickett, S. T. A. et al. 2007. Ecological understanding, 2nd edn. The nature of theory and the theory of nature. - Academic Press.
24. Pullin, A. S. and Stewart, G. B. 2006. Guidelines for systematic review in conservation and environmental management. - Conserv. Biol. 20: 1647-1656.
25. Reid, A. M. et al. 2010. A systematic review of the recent ecological literature on cushion plants: the new heavy weight champions of plant facilitation. - Web Ecol. 10: 44-49.
26. Sidlauskas, B. et al. 2009. Linking big: the continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis. - Evolution 64: 871-880.
27. Spafford, R. et al. 2013. A systematic review of arthropod community diversity in association with invasive plants. - NeoBiota 16: 81-102.
28. Sterne, J. A. C. and Smith, G. D. 2001. Sifting the evidence - what's wrong with significance tests. - Br. Med. J. 322: 226-231.
29. Stewart, G. 2010. Meta-analysis in applied ecology. - Biol. Lett. 6: 78-81.
30. Tomkins, J. L. and Kotiaho, J. S. 2004. Publication bias in meta-analysis: seeing the wood for the trees. - Oikos 104: 194-196.
31. Wolkovich, E. M. et al. 2012. Advances in global change research require open science by individual researchers. - Global Change Biol. 18: 2102-2110.