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2020, 'Meta-analysis reveals materiomic relationships in major ampullate silk across the spider phylogeny', Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0471
,2020, 'Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11, pp. 1141 - 1152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13434
,2020, 'Dunnock social status correlates with sperm speed, but fast sperm does not always equal high fitness', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33, pp. 1139 - 1148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13655
,2020, 'Intervention for children with developmental coordination disorder: How robust is our recent evidence?', Child: Care, Health and Development, 46, pp. 397 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12763
,2020, 'Revisiting and expanding the meta-analysis of variation: The log coefficient of variation ratio', Research Synthesis Methods, 11, pp. 553 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1423
,2020, 'A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 498 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2
,2020, 'Introducing our series: Research synthesis and meta-research in biology', BMC Biology, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-0755-0
,2020, 'Pharmacological manipulations of judgement bias: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, pp. 269 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.008
,2020, 'Embrace heterogeneity to improve reproducibility: A perspective from meta-analysis of variation in preclinical research', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.26.354274
,2020, 'Global associations between macronutrient supply and age-specific mortality', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, pp. 30824 - 30835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015058117
,2020, 'Paternal hypoxia exposure primes offspring for increased hypoxia resistance', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.09.416727
,2020, 'Sex and Power: sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.23.106146
,2019, 'Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity', Ecology, 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2832
,2019, 'Rearing Success Does Not Improve With Apparent Pair Coordination in Offspring Provisioning', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00405
,2019, 'Effects of nutrient limitation on sperm and seminal fluid: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Biological Reviews, 94, pp. 1722 - 1739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12524
,2019, 'Immunosenescence in wild animals: meta-analysis and outlook', Ecology Letters, 22, pp. 1709 - 1722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13343
,2019, 'Landscape features determine brown trout population structure and recruitment dynamics', Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 28, pp. 554 - 562, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eff.12474
,2019, 'No evidence for kin recognition in a passerine bird', PLoS ONE, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213486
,2019, 'Developmental temperature affects phenotypic means and variability: A meta-analysis of fish data', Fish and Fisheries, 20, pp. 1005 - 1022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12394
,2019, 'Making conservation science more reliable with preregistration and registered reports', Conservation Biology, 33, pp. 747 - 750, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13342
,2019, 'A General Method for Simultaneously Accounting for Phylogenetic and Species Sampling Uncertainty via Rubin's Rules in Comparative Analysis', Systematic Biology, 68, pp. 632 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy089
,2019, 'A visualized overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on low-carbon built environments: An evidence review map', Solar Energy, 186, pp. 291 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.04.062
,2019, 'The covariance between metabolic rate and behaviour varies across behaviours and thermal types: meta-analytic insights', Biological Reviews, 94, pp. 1056 - 1074, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12491
,2019, 'Dietary macronutrient content, age-specific mortality and lifespan', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0393
,2019, 'Global meta-analysis of soil-disturbing vertebrates reveals strong effects on ecosystem patterns and processes', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, pp. 661 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12877
,2019, 'How good does our map of knowledge have to be?: A comment on Berger-Tal et al.', Behavioral Ecology, 30, pp. 13 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary137
,2019, 'Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise r package', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, pp. 426 - 431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13118
,2019, 'Research Weaving: Visualizing the Future of Research Synthesis', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34, pp. 224 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.007
,2019, 'Measuring up to reality: Null models and analysis simulations to study parental coordination over provisioning offspring', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00142
,2019, 'Consistent trade-offs in ecosystem services between land covers with different production intensities', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/621706
,2019, 'Sexual conflict mediated by ecological sex differences can generate diverse patterns of transgenerational plasticity', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/846287
,2018, 'Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM', Nature Communications, 9, pp. 3777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0
,2018, 'Mate Choice Copying in Humans: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4, pp. 364 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-018-0099-y
,2018, 'Plan S will hit some academic societies hard', Nature, 564, pp. 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07609-1
,2018, 'Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias', eLife, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37385
,2018, 'The repeatability of cognitive performance: A meta-analysis', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0281
,2018, 'Sex differences in life history, behavior, and physiology along a slow-fast continuum: a meta-analysis', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2534-2
,2018, 'Subspecies status and methods explain strength of response to local versus foreign song by oscine birds in meta-analysis', Animal Behaviour, 142, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.05.023
,2018, 'Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution', PLoS ONE, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200303
,2018, 'Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 929 - 935, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0545-z
,2018, 'The genetic structure of the introduced house sparrow populations in Australia and New Zealand is consistent with historical descriptions of multiple introductions to each country', Biological Invasions, 20, pp. 1507 - 1522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1643-6
,2018, 'Meta-analysis of lamb birth weight as influenced by pregnancy nutrition of multiparous ewes', Journal of Animal Science, 96, pp. 1962 - 1977, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/sky072
,2018, 'Computer Animation Technology in Behavioral Sciences: A Sequential, Automatic, and High-Throughput Approach to Quantifying Personality in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)', Zebrafish, 15, pp. 206 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2017.1532
,2018, 'Fixed-effect variance and the estimation of repeatabilities and heritabilities: issues and solutions', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31, pp. 621 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13232
,2018, 'Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis', Nature, 555, pp. 175 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature25753
,2018, 'Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis', Evolutionary Biology, 45, pp. 96 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9432-9
,2018, 'Evidence that fertility trades off with early offspring fitness as males age', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2174
,2018, 'Not all predators are equal: a continent-scale analysis of the effects of predator control on Australian mammals', Mammal Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12115
,2018, 'Heritability and social brood effects on personality in juvenile and adult life-history stages in a wild passerine', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31, pp. 75 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13197
,2018, 'Redefine statistical significance', Nature Human Behaviour, 2, pp. 6 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z
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