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Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 777-784

  Gerstner, Katharina ^a,b   Moreno Mateos, David ^c,d   Gurevitch, Jessica ^e   Beckmann, Michael ^b   Kambach, Stephan ^b,f   Jones, Holly P ^g   Seppelt, Ralf ^b,f  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^d BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data reporting; meta analysis; open science; quantitative review; reproducibility; research synthesis; transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017370549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12758     Document Type: Note

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