Illustrating the importance of meta‐analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution

Effects of developmental stress on animal phenotype and performance: a quantitative review

(2019) Harrison J.F. Eyck et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The Heritability of Behavior: A Meta-analysis

(2019) Ned A Dochtermann et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Effects of nutrient limitation on sperm and seminal fluid: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2019) Erin L. Macartney et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Developmental temperature affects phenotypic means and variability: A meta‐analysis of fish data

(2019) Rose E. O'Dea et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Temporal Instability of Evidence Base: A Threat to Policy Making?

(2019) Julia Koricheva et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Meta-analytic evidence that sexual selection improves population fitness

(2019) Justin G. Cally et al.   Nature Communications

ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R

(2018) Emmanuel Paradis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Environmental stress does not increase the mean strength of selection

(2018) Devin Arbuthnott et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis

(2018) Jessica Gurevitch et al.   NATURE

A global meta-analysis of yield stability in organic and conservation agriculture

(2018) Samuel Knapp et al.   Nature Communications

Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM

(2018) R. E. O’Dea et al.   Nature Communications

Developmental stress and telomere dynamics in a genetically polymorphic species

(2018) Andrea S. Grunst et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias

(2018) Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar et al.   eLife

Environmental stress correlates with increases in both genetic and residual variances: A meta-analysis of animal studies

(2017) Piotr K. Rowiński et al.   EVOLUTION

brms: An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan

(2017) Paul-Christian Bürkner   Journal of Statistical Software

Nonindependence and sensitivity analyses in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses

(2017) Daniel W.A. Noble et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Does early-life diet affect longevity? A meta-analysis across experimental studies

(2016) Sinead English et al.   Biology Letters

Metabolic rates, and not hormone levels, are a likely mediator of between-individual differences in behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2016) Benedikt Holtmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Sex-specific selection under environmental stress in seed beetles

(2016) I. Martinossi-Allibert et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data

(2016) François Michonneau et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom

(2016) T. Janicke et al.   Science Advances

Questioning causal involvement of telomeres in aging

(2015) Mirre J.P. Simons   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

An Overlooked Consequence of Dietary Mixing: A Varied Diet Reduces Interindividual Variance in Fitness

(2015) Alistair M. Senior et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling

(2015) Joel E. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life

(2015) Cody E. Hinchliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Absolute or relative effects? Arm-based synthesis of trial data

(2015) S. Dias et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Developmental stress predicts social network position

(2014) N. J. Boogert et al.   Biology Letters

Uses and misuses of meta-analysis in plant ecology

(2014) Julia Koricheva et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of variation: ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond

(2014) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

THE VARIABILITY IS IN THE SEX CHROMOSOMES

(2013) Klaus Reinhold et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   AGING CELL

Do females preferentially associate with males given a better start in life?

(2012) A. T. Kahn et al.   Biology Letters

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The mean strikes back: mean–variance relationships and heteroscedasticity

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

On the meta-analysis of response ratios for studies with correlated and multi-group designs

(2011) Marc J. Lajeunesse   ECOLOGY

Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

(2010) D. Reale et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2009) Alison M. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Meta-analysis in applied ecology

(2009) G. Stewart   Biology Letters

The ratio of means method as an alternative to mean differences for analyzing continuous outcome variables in meta-analysis: A simulation study

(2008) Jan O Friedrich et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Short- and long-term consequences of early developmental conditions: a case study on wild and domesticated zebra finches

(2008) B. TSCHIRREN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY