Understanding 'it depends' in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions

R Spake, DE Bowler, CT Callaghan… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists routinely use statistical models to detect and explain interactions among
ecological drivers, with a goal to evaluate whether an effect of interest changes in sign or …

Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology

R Spake, RE O'dea, S Nakagawa… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthesis of primary ecological data is often assumed to achieve a notion of 'generality',
through the quantification of overall effect sizes and consistency among studies, and has …

Why and how we should join the shift from significance testing to estimation

D Berner, V Amrhein - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A paradigm shift away from null hypothesis significance testing seems in progress. Based on
simulations, we illustrate some of the underlying motivations. First, p‐values vary strongly …

The CBD Post‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature

K Friedman, P Bridgewater, V Agostini… - People and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recognizing two decades of failure to achieve global goals and targets, parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity are in the final phase of negotiating a Post‐2020 Global …

Past and future uses of text mining in ecology and evolution

MJ Farrell, L Brierley, A Willoughby… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecology and evolutionary biology, like other scientific fields, are experiencing an
exponential growth of academic manuscripts. As domain knowledge accumulates, scientists …

Human–wildlife conflict in the roof of the world: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review

P Sharma, N Chettri, K Wangchuk - Ecology and evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human–wildlife conflicts have intensified by many folds and at different levels in recent
years. The same is true in the case of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), the roof of the world …

Gender bias and inequity holds women back in their conservation careers

R James, JRB Fisher, C Carlos-Grotjahn… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The planet is facing climate and biodiversity loss crises that impact all of humanity and yet
globally, women remain underrepresented in leading solutions to these urgent conservation …

Quantum computing: a new paradigm for ecology

AP Woolnough, LCL Hollenberg, P Cassey… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
A global technology arms race is underway to build evermore powerful and precise quantum
computers. Quantum computers have the potential to tackle certain quantitative problems …

Large language models in plant biology

HYI Lam, XE Ong, M Mutwil - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have taken the world by storm. However,
LLMs are not limited to human language and can be used to analyze sequential data, such …

Wildlife documentaries present a diverse, but biased, portrayal of the natural world

K Howlett, HY Lee, A Jaffé, M Lewis… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife‐documentary production has expanded over recent decades, while studies report
reduced direct contact with nature. The role of documentaries and other electronic content in …