Giants' shoulders 15 years later: Lessons, challenges and guidelines in fisheries meta-analysis

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 342-361

  Thorson, James T ^a   Cope, Jason M ^a   Kleisner, Kristin M ^b   Samhouri, Jameal F ^a   Shelton, Andrew O ^a   Ward, Eric J ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effect size; Fisheries models; Hierarchical models; Meta analysis; Research synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926408514     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12061     Document Type: Article

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