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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook

@eivimeycook.bsky.social
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- Lecturer, UEA - Data Editor, Ecology Letters - Publications Committee, ESA - Past-President and Advocacy Co-Chair, SORTEE - Studies Ageing, Parental Effects, and Open Science - Fond of burying beetles - R Enthusiast - Dad x1

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 9h
SORTEE Member Voices is back! We’d love to celebrate more members in future posts. If you’re interested in being featured, please fill out this short survey: forms.gle/SDnzzocqTbp4...
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...
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Measuring the edges of species' geographic ranges
The fundamental unit of spatial ecology is a species range: the geographical area that it occupies. Species ranges are delineated by range edges (also known as boundaries or limits). Why range edg...
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A reminder to sign up to the @sortee.bsky.social conference: 13-14th October sortee.org/upcoming/! The advocacy committee will be running a hackathon (second event) looking at EcoEvo society journal policies and data/code availability/quality.
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Upcoming SORTEE conference
Upcoming conference by the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What has our amazing Advocacy Committee been up to? 👀 For more on SORTEE’s guidelines for code and data quality control see: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... #openscience
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Introducing disappR. The shiny app made by @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social and I to help diagnose and model selective [dis]appearance!! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Please do try it out and let us know how you get on! (and if you spot any bugs!).
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️
Cover image of the Data Management guide. Blue cover with a puffin on it! Also features the BES logo, Better Science Guides and our mission Through science we can.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Documentation is important!!
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interested in helping make science a better place? Nominations for 2027 #SORTEE volunteer positions are open now! With 10 committees to choose from and so many ways to get involved, we welcome everyone to volunteer with us! Nominations close 31st Oct. sortee.org/join/ #openscience
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.
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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meta-analysts ask researchers to share reusable data, but are we leading by example? Great work by @shreyadimri.bsky.social, @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & more. Of 81 meta-analyses, 68% shared data, only 15% shared code, and none reported a risk-of-bias assessment. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SORTEE recently celebrated five years of its founding! 🪩 Learn more: sortee.org/blog/2026/08... We’d like to thank our incredible community of volunteers for their enthusiasm, energy and commitment towards making ecology & evolutionary biology research more open, reliable and transparent ✨
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New preprint led by Kyle Morrison 🧵 The first item bank for evidence synthesis reporting guidelines, pulling together 2249 reporting items from 59 guidelines across medicine, psychology & environmental science 🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf... 📊 github.com/KyleMorrison... ®️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So deserved! Bob Montgomerie and Am Nat really raising the bar on rigorous and trustworthy publication practices!
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Two fantastic plenaries!
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just read this preprint in medRxiv “Challenges in the Computational Reproducibility of Linear Regression Analyses: An Empirical Study” www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... In the paper, they propose MLast (Model Location and specification table; Table 5 of the preprint).
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Challenges in the Computational Reproducibility of Linear Regression Analyses: An Empirical Study
Background Reproducibility concerns in health research have grown, as many published results fail to be independently reproduced. Achieving computational reproducibility, where others can replicate th...
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026
Some people on here really need to go touch graph.
A graph with a green noisy line that looks like grass. X-axis label "x", Y-axis label "y"
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Issue 59 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ AsCollected Platform ➡️ Enacting Open Science Values in Qualitative Leadership Research @cnsyoung.com ➡️ For a Decade CRediT has Quietly Reshaped Academic Authorship – What Comes Next? @drachiarelli.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 059
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s me! Excited to discuss all things open science and @sortee.bsky.social
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If your journal performs manual reproducibility checks, and you are interested in comparing the performance of manual checks with the automated Reproducibility_Check module that I am developing for Metacheck (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo..., does not use any AI) do reach out!
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28  Reproducibility Check – The Metacheck Manual
A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New preprint on EdArXiv! (and my first pedagogy paper!) osf.io/preprints/ed... Oral assessment is increasingly proposed as a response to AI in higher education, but evidence for its effectiveness and inclusivity remains largely qualitative. Here we provide quantitative evidence.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Transgenerational and Intergenerational Maternal Age Effects Exhibit Complex, Genotype-Specific Patterns of Inheritance by Liguori et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/08/2026
Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is pretty cool 🥰 Delighted and honored and so so grateful for all the folks that helped get me through everything!
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can benefits echo across generations? In C. elegans, starvation boosts offspring fitness but carries hidden costs for great-grand offspring, revealing evolutionary trade-offs across generations. doi.org/10.1093/evle... @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social
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Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/
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Oonagh Barker @obarker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New preprint! We looked at age-specific preferences for protein and carbohydrate in males and females, where females lay their eggs vs what larvae choose& do best on, & found unexpected parental age effects. With @eivimeycook.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social Wilfried Haerty& Tracey Chapman
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well done @obarker.bsky.social!!
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trade-offs Between Intergenerational and Transgenerational Effects: experimental data and demographic simulation model of multigenerational trade-offs in evolution: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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Claire Tsui @clairetsui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I did a thing :D First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳) Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Do all traits age together? A long-term study of wild Seychelles warblers shows ageing is surprisingly asynchronous, with some traits senescing while others remain unchanged. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience #OpenData
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How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science
The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Always share a data dictionary along with your data so that people aren't guessing what a variable represents. There are many options for creating one (see thread for examples). Choose which one works best for you and share it alongside your data files. :)
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 25/07/2026
Leading big team science as early-career researchers: challenges and solutions. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #ECRs #RSOS
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 24/07/2026
Looking to build your editorial experience? Join the #ProcB Preprint Editorial Team and help showcase cutting-edge biological research. Develop your publishing expertise, expand your professional network and stay at the forefront of new discoveries. Apply by 1 September 2026 #ECR
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team Our team’s primary mission is to look through…
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s been the first year since my PhD that I’ve not been to and won’t be going to any conferences (aside from @sortee.bsky.social’s). But it’s been for the best reason. We welcomed our first F1 in February.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In this tenth instalment of the #ECRAsks series, Oakleigh Wilson spoke with Joel Pick about the replication crisis in ecology & evolutionary biology research and how we could tackle it. Check out their conversation on the #SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2026/07...
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Are you jazzed about rigorous research and want to figure out how to incorporate more practices in your group? Come to my talk today (Tues) @isbe2026.bsky.social at 2pm in the Londra room! I'll be spreading the gospel about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology!
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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ehi @isbe2026.bsky.social! @sortee.bsky.social is here at ISBE! Come to talk with us about OPEN SCIENCE!
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UEA Biological Sciences @biouea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Many Congratulations to our wonderful BIO students who are graduating today. We are SO PROUD of you! ❤️ #UEAScience
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Issue 53 of #rdmweekly is out!📬 ➡️ ECR Asks: Q & A with @eivimeycook.bsky.social ➡️ data-dict.yaml (data dictionary specification) @hadley.nz ➡️ Modern Python Project Management for Researchers with uv @digiresacademy.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 053
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In many fields, pilot studies are critical for methods & tool development & refinement, yet are often overlooked & rarely reported Any ecologists & evolutionary biologists with a special interest and experience in piloting in ecology & evolution: suggested reading, previous research, etc...?
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed? Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review. sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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