By Professor Shinichi Nakagawa

Journal articles

Yang Y; Sánchez-Tójar A; O’Dea RE; Noble DWA; Koricheva J; Jennions MD; Parker TH; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Publication bias impacts on effect size, statistical power, and magnitude (Type M) and sign (Type S) errors in ecology and evolutionary biology', BMC Biology, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01485-y

Nakagawa S; Yang Y; Macartney EL; Spake R; Lagisz M, 2023, 'Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences', Environmental Evidence, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13750-023-00301-6

Foo YZ; Lagisz M; O’Dea RE; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'The influence of immune challenges on the mean and variance in reproductive investment: a meta-analysis of the terminal investment hypothesis', BMC Biology, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01603-4

Ivimey-Cook ER; Noble DWA; Nakagawa S; Lajeunesse MJ; Pick JL, 2023, 'Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta-analysis', Research Synthesis Methods, 14, pp. 911 - 915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1663

Burke S; Pottier P; Macartney EL; Drobniak SM; Lagisz M; Ainsworth T; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Mapping literature reviews on coral health: A review map, critical appraisal and bibliometric analysis', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12287

Yang Y; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Decline effects are rare in ecology: Comment', Ecology, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4069

Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; O'Dea RE; Pottier P; Rutkowska J; Senior AM; Yang Y; Noble DWA, 2023, 'orchaRd 2.0: An R package for visualising meta-analyses with orchard plots', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, pp. 2003 - 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14152

Burke S; Pottier P; Lagisz M; Macartney EL; Ainsworth T; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'The impact of rising temperatures on the prevalence of coral diseases and its predictability: A global meta-analysis', Ecology Letters, 26, pp. 1466 - 1481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14266

Spake R; Bowler DE; Callaghan CT; Blowes SA; Doncaster CP; Antão LH; Nakagawa S; McElreath R; Chase JM, 2023, 'Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions', Biological Reviews, 98, pp. 983 - 1002, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12939

Zhang RY; Wild KH; Pottier P; Carrasco MI; Nakagawa S; Noble DWA, 2023, 'Developmental environments do not affect thermal physiological traits in reptiles: an experimental test and meta-analysis', Biology Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0019

Lagisz M; Aich U; Amin B; Rutkowska J; Sánchez-Mercado A; Lara CE; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Little transparency and equity in scientific awards for early- and mid-career researchers in ecology and evolution', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 655 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02028-6

English S; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Getting old gracefully, and risk of dying before getting there: a new guide to theory on extrinsic mortality and senescence', Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology, 1, pp. 100626, http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100626

Yang Y; Macleod M; Pan J; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.105016

Nakagawa S; Noble DWA; Lagisz M; Spake R; Viechtbauer W; Senior AM, 2023, 'A robust and readily implementable method for the meta-analysis of response ratios with and without missing standard deviations', Ecology Letters, 26, pp. 232 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14144

Crawford L; Halperin SA; Dzierlenga MW; Skidmore B; Linakis MW; Nakagawa S; Longnecker MP, 2023, 'Systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic data on vaccine response in relation to exposure to five principal perfluoroalkyl substances', Environment International, 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107734

Pick JL; Khwaja N; Spence MA; Ihle M; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Counter culture: causes, extent and solutions of systematic bias in the analysis of behavioural counts', Peerj, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15059

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Steele J; Fisher JP; Smith D; Schoenfeld BJ; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Meta-analysis of variation in sport and exercise science: Examples of application within resistance training research', Journal of Sports Sciences, 41, pp. 1617 - 1634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2023.2286748

Fraser H; Bush M; Wintle BC; Mody F; Smith ET; Hanea AM; Gould E; Hemming V; Hamilton DG; Rumpff L; Wilkinson DP; Pearson R; Thorn FS; Ashton R; Willcox A; Gray CT; Head A; Ross M; Groenewegen R; Marcoci A; Vercammen A; Parker TH; Hoekstra R; Nakagawa S; Mandel DR; van Ravenzwaaij D; McBride M; Sinnott RO; Vesk P; Burgman M; Fidler F, 2023, 'Predicting reliability through structured expert elicitation with the repliCATS (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science) process', Plos One, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274429

Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; Francis R; Tam J; Li X; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR; O’brien JK; Pitcher BJ; Van Sluys M; Sowmya A; Kingsford RT, 2023, 'Rapid literature mapping on the recent use of machine learning for wildlife imagery', Peer Community Journal, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.261

Nguyen P; McKenzie JE; Hamilton DG; Moher D; Tugwell P; Fidler FM; Haddaway NR; Higgins JPT; Kanukula R; Karunananthan S; Maxwell LJ; McDonald S; Nakagawa S; Nunan D; Welch VA; Page MJ, 2023, 'Systematic reviewers' perspectives on replication of systematic reviews: A survey', Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, 1, pp. e12009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cesm.12009

Nguyen P; McKenzie JE; Hamilton DG; Moher D; Tugwell P; Fidler FM; Haddaway NR; Higgins JPT; Kanukula R; Karunananthan S; Maxwell LJ; McDonald S; Nakagawa S; Nunan D; Welch VA; Page MJ, 2023, 'Systematic reviewers' perspectives on sharing review data, analytic code, and other materials: A survey', Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, 1, pp. e12008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cesm.12008

Pottier P; Lin HY; Oh RRY; Pollo P; Rivera-Villanueva AN; Valdebenito JO; Yang Y; Amano T; Burke S; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'A comprehensive database of amphibian heat tolerance', Scientific Data, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01704-9

Spake R; O’Dea RE; Nakagawa S; Doncaster CP; Ryo M; Callaghan CT; Bullock JM, 2022, 'Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 1818 - 1828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01891-z

Nolazco S; Delhey K; Nakagawa S; Peters A, 2022, 'Ornaments are equally informative in male and female birds', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33548-7

Wilson LAB; Zajitschek SRK; Lagisz M; Mason J; Haselimashhadi H; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Sex differences in allometry for phenotypic traits in mice indicate that females are not scaled males', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35266-6

Foo YZ; Sutherland CAM; Burton NS; Nakagawa S; Rhodes G, 2022, 'Accuracy in Facial Trustworthiness Impressions: Kernel of Truth or Modern Physiognomy? A Meta-Analysis', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48, pp. 1580 - 1596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672211048110

Roth AM; Kent SM; Hobson EA; Kritsky G; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Personality-mediated speed-accuracy tradeoffs in mating in a 17-year periodical cicada', Behavioral Ecology, 33, pp. 1141 - 1152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac082

Anwer H; O'Dea RE; Mason D; Zajitschek S; Klinke A; Reid M; Hesselson D; Noble DWA; Morris MJ; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'The effects of an obesogenic diet on behavior and cognition in zebrafish (Danio rerio): Trait average, variability, repeatability, and behavioral syndromes', Ecology and Evolution, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9511

Chin JM; Growns B; Sebastian J; Page MJ; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'The transparency and reproducibility of systematic reviews in forensic science', Forensic Science International, 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111472

Pottier P; Burke S; Zhang RY; Noble DWA; Schwanz LE; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 2245 - 2268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14083

Anwer H; Mason D; Zajitschek S; Hesselson D; Noble DWA; Morris MJ; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Intergenerational effects of overfeeding on aversive learning in zebrafish (Danio rerio)', Ecology and Evolution, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9423

Burke S; Pottier P; Macartney EL; Drobniak SM; Lagisz M; Ainsworth T; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Mapping literature reviews on coral health: Protocol for a review map, critical appraisal and bibliometric analysis', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12190

Bishop J; Garratt MPD; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Animal pollination increases stability of crop yield across spatial scales', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 2034 - 2047, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14069

Lagisz M; Vasilakopoulou K; Bridge C; Santamouris M; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Rapid systematic reviews for synthesizing research on built environment', Environmental Development, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2022.100730

Ragsdale A; Ortega-Recalde O; Dutoit L; Besson AA; Chia JHZ; King T; Nakagawa S; Hickey A; Gemmell NJ; Hore T; Johnson SL, 2022, 'Paternal hypoxia exposure primes offspring for increased hypoxia resistance', BMC Biology, 20, pp. 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01389-x

Bertram MG; Martin JM; McCallum ES; Alton LA; Brand JA; Brooks BW; Cerveny D; Fick J; Ford AT; Hellström G; Michelangeli M; Nakagawa S; Polverino G; Saaristo M; Sih A; Tan H; Tyler CR; Wong BBM; Brodin T, 2022, 'Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution', Biological Reviews, 97, pp. 1346 - 1364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12844

Chin JM; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE IN EVIDENCE-BASED LAW REFORM?', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 45, pp. 1124 - 1153

Hennessy EA; Acabchuk RL; Arnold PA; Dunn AG; Foo YZ; Johnson BT; Geange SR; Haddaway NR; Nakagawa S; Mapanga W; Mengersen K; Page MJ; Sánchez-Tójar A; Welch V; McGuinness LA, 2022, 'Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact', Prevention Science, 23, pp. 809 - 820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11121-021-01279-8

Franklin KA; Nicoll MAC; Butler SJ; Norris K; Ratcliffe N; Nakagawa S; Gill JA, 2022, 'Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, pp. 1416 - 1430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13697

Atkinson J; Brudvig LA; Mallen-Cooper M; Nakagawa S; Moles AT; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta-analysis', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1725 - 1737, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14025

Vendl C; Pottier P; Taylor MD; Bräunig J; Gibson MJ; Hesselson D; Neely GG; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Thermal processing reduces PFAS concentrations in blue food – A systematic review and meta-analysis', Environmental Pollution, 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119081

Grames EM; Montgomery GA; Boyes DH; Dicks LV; Forister ML; Matson TA; Nakagawa S; Prendergast KS; Taylor NG; Tingley MW; Wagner DL; White TE; Woodcock P; Elphick CS, 2022, 'A framework and case study to systematically identify long-term insect abundance and diversity datasets', Conservation Science and Practice, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12687

Schielzeth H; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Conditional repeatability and the variance explained by reaction norm variation in random slope models', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, pp. 1214 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13856

Hua F; Adrian Bruijnzeel L; Meli P; Martin PA; Zhang J; Nakagawa S; Miao X; Wang W; McEvoy C; Peña-Arancibia JL; Brancalion PHS; Smith P; Edwards DP; Balmford A, 2022, 'The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches', Science, 376, pp. 839 - 844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4649

Pollo P; Nakagawa S; Kasumovic MM, 2022, 'The better, the choosier: A meta-analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1305 - 1322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13981

Haave-Audet E; Besson AA; Nakagawa S; Mathot KJ, 2022, 'Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Biological Reviews, 97, pp. 708 - 731, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12819

Kar F; Nakagawa S; Noble DWA, 2022, 'Impact of developmental temperatures on thermal plasticity and repeatability of metabolic rate', Evolutionary Ecology, 36, pp. 199 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10160-1

Dodds KC; Schaefer N; Bishop MJ; Nakagawa S; Brooks PR; Knights AM; Strain EMA, 2022, 'Material type influences the abundance but not richness of colonising organisms on marine structures', Journal of Environmental Management, 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114549

Pottier P; Burke S; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Methodological inconsistencies define thermal bottlenecks in fish life cycle: a comment on Dahlke et al. 2020', Evolutionary Ecology, 36, pp. 287 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10157-w

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