Paths towards greater consensus building in experimental biology

Meta-analysis reveals an extreme “decline effect” in the impacts of ocean acidification on fish behavior

(2022) Jeff C. Clements et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Rapid protein evolution, organellar reductions, and invasive intronic elements in the marine aerobic parasite dinoflagellate Amoebophrya spp

(2021) Sarah Farhat et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The standardization fallacy

(2021) Bernhard Voelkl et al.   NATURE METHODS

The gill-oxygen limitation theory (GOLT) and its critics

(2021) Daniel Pauly   Science Advances

Climate impacts on organisms, ecosystems and human societies: integrating OCLTT into a wider context

(2021) Hans-O. Pörtner   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Towards more integration of physiology, dispersal and land-use change to understand the responses of species to climate change

(2021) Christian Hof   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Elucidating mechanism is important in forecasting the impact of a changing world on species survival

(2021) Craig E. Franklin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The role of mechanistic physiology in investigating impacts of global warming on fishes

(2021) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reported Individual Costs and Benefits of Sharing Open Data among Canadian Academic Faculty in Ecology and Evolution

(2021) Sandrine Soeharjono et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Twitter conferences as a low‐carbon, far‐reaching and inclusive way of communicating research in ornithology and ecology

(2021) Anthony Caravaggi et al.   IBIS

Meta-analysis of variation suggests that embracing variability improves both replicability and generalizability in preclinical research

(2021) Takuji Usui et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Respiratory capacity is twice as important as temperature in explaining patterns of metabolic rate across the vertebrate tree of life

(2021) Jennifer S. Bigman et al.   Science Advances

Changing scientific meetings for the better

(2021) Sarvenaz Sarabipour et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Why sharing data and code during peer review can enhance behavioral ecology research

(2021) Esteban Fernández-Juricic   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Guidelines for reporting methods to estimate metabolic rates by aquatic intermittent-flow respirometry

(2021) Shaun S. Killen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Five keys to writing a reproducible lab protocol

(2021) Monya Baker   NATURE

Investigating disagreement in the scientific literature

(2021) Wout S Lamers et al.   eLife

Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science

(2021) Rink Hoekstra et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes

(2020) Timothy D. Clark et al.   NATURE

The role of replication studies in ecology

(2020) Hannah Fraser et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The TRUST Principles for digital repositories

(2020) Dawei Lin et al.   Scientific Data

The combined effect of body size and temperature on oxygen consumption rates and the size‐dependency of preferred temperature in European perch Perca fluviatilis

(2020) Emil A. F. Christensen et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Low availability of code in ecology: A call for urgent action

(2020) Antica Culina et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Proteomic Responses to Ocean Acidification in the Brain of Juvenile Coral Reef Fish

(2020) Hin Hung Tsang et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes

(2020) Dominique G. Roche et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ensuring data access, transparency, and preservation: mandatory data deposition for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

(2020) Theo C. M. Bakker et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Gill‐Oxygen Limitation Theory and size at maturity/maximum size relationships for salmonid populations occupying flowing waters

(2020) Kevin A. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Reply to: Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies

(2020) Timothy D. Clark et al.   NATURE

Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies

(2020) Philip L. Munday et al.   NATURE

Aquatic Life History Trajectories Are Shaped by Selection, Not Oxygen Limitation

(2019) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology

(2019) Jiangshan Lai et al.   Ecosphere

Reliable novelty: New should not trump true

(2019) Björn Brembs   PLOS BIOLOGY

Tracktor: Image-based automated tracking of animal movement and behaviour

(2019) Vivek Hari Sridhar et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

respR -An R package for the manipulation and analysis of respirometry data

(2019) Januar Harianto et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Why do scientists disagree? Explaining and improving measures of the perceived causes of scientific disputes

(2019) Nathan F. Dieckmann et al.   PLoS One

Decreases in length at maturation of Mediterranean fishes associated with higher sea temperatures

(2019) Daphna Shapiro Goldberg et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Making conservation science more reliable with preregistration and registered reports

(2019) Timothy Parker et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

MIReAD, a minimum information standard for reporting arthropod abundance data

(2019) Samuel S. C. Rund et al.   Scientific Data

Signaling the trustworthiness of science

(2019) Kathleen Hall Jamieson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rate and success of study replication in ecology and evolution

(2019) Clint D. Kelly   PeerJ

Highlight negative results to improve science

(2019) Devang Mehta   NATURE

A toast to the error detectors

(2019) Simine Vazire   NATURE

On confusing cause and effect in the oxygen limitation of fish

(2018) Daniel Pauly et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Data management made simple

(2018) Quirin Schiermeier   NATURE

An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility

(2018) Victoria Stodden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproducibility of preclinical animal research improves with heterogeneity of study samples

(2018) Bernhard Voelkl et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure

(2018) David Moher et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

(2018) Alexandru Milcu et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Hack weeks as a model for data science education and collaboration

(2018) Daniela Huppenkothen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is oxygen limitation in warming waters a valid mechanism to explain decreased body sizes in aquatic ectotherms?

(2018) Asta Audzijonyte et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

In modelling effects of global warming, invalid assumptions lead to unrealistic projections

(2017) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sound physiological knowledge and principles in modeling shrinking of fishes under climate change

(2017) Daniel Pauly et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Models projecting the fate of fish populations under climate change need to be based on valid physiological mechanisms

(2017) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Acid–base physiology, neurobiology and behaviour in relation to CO2-induced ocean acidification

(2017) Martin Tresguerres et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: bridging ecology and physiology

(2017) Hans-O. Pörtner et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Rewarding negative results keeps science on track

(2017)   NATURE

Science, lies and video-taped experiments

(2017) Timothy D. Clark   NATURE

How experimental biology and ecology can support evidence-based decision-making in conservation: avoiding pitfalls and enabling application

(2017) Steven J. Cooke et al.   Conservation Physiology

An interplay between plasticity and parental phenotype determines impacts of ocean acidification on a reef fish

(2017) Celia Schunter et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mandatory data archiving inBehavioral Ecology

(2016) Leigh W. Simmons   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Trends and management implications of human-influenced life-history changes in marine ectotherms

(2016) Asta Audzijonyte et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules

(2016) Christina C. Roggatz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Applying organized scepticism to ocean acidification research

(2016) Howard I. Browman   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The determination of standard metabolic rate in fishes

(2016) D. Chabot et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Transparency in Ecology and Evolution: Real Problems, Real Solutions

(2016) Timothy H. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Elevating The Status of Code in Ecology

(2016) K.A.S. Mislan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Two-current choice flumes for testing avoidance and preference in aquatic animals

(2016) Fredrik Jutfelt et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Publication bias and the canonization of false facts

(2016) Silas Boye Nissen et al.   eLife

How open science helps researchers succeed

(2016) Erin C McKiernan et al.   eLife

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

(2016) Mark D. Wilkinson et al.   Scientific Data

Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease

(2016) Valentina Cappello et al.   Scientific Reports

Experimental design in ocean acidification research: problems and solutions

(2015) Christopher E. Cornwall et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The effects of temperature on aerobic metabolism: towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of ectotherms to a changing environment

(2015) P. M. Schulte   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Measurement and relevance of maximum metabolic rate in fishes

(2015) T. Norin et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Climate change tightens a metabolic constraint on marine habitats

(2015) C. Deutsch et al.   SCIENCE

Promoting an open research culture

(2015) B. A. Nosek et al.   SCIENCE

Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?

(2015) Dominique G. Roche et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Reconsidering Ocean Calamities

(2015) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Forgotten treasures: the fate of data in animal behaviour studies

(2014) Daniel S. Caetano et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ocean acidification slows retinal function in a damselfish through interference with GABAA receptors

(2014) W.-S. Chung et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The importance of accurate CO2 dosing and measurement in ocean acidification studies

(2014) D. Moran   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Response to 'The importance of accurate CO2 dosing and measurement in ocean acidification studies'

(2014) P. L. Munday et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Behavioural impairment in reef fishes caused by ocean acidification at CO2 seeps

(2014) Philip L. Munday et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of elevated CO2 on fish behaviour undiminished by transgenerational acclimation

(2014) Megan J. Welch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Mandated data archiving greatly improves access to research data

(2013) Timothy H. Vines et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Impaired learning of predators and lower prey survival under elevated CO2: a consequence of neurotransmitter interference

(2013) Douglas P. Chivers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Aerobic scope measurements of fishes in an era of climate change: respirometry, relevance and recommendations

(2013) T. D. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effects of acidification on olfactory-mediated behaviour in freshwater and marine ecosystems: a synthesis

(2013) A. O. H. C. Leduc et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Physiology, Behavior, and Conservation

(2013) Steven J. Cooke et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Effects of ocean acidification on visual risk assessment in coral reef fishes

(2012) Maud C. O. Ferrari et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Integrating climate-related stressor effects on marine organisms: unifying principles linking molecule to ecosystem-level changes

(2012) HO Pörtner   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Near-future carbon dioxide levels alter fish behaviour by interfering with neurotransmitter function

(2012) Göran E. Nilsson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems

(2012) William W. L. Cheung et al.   Nature Climate Change

Intrageneric variation in antipredator responses of coral reef fishes affected by ocean acidification: implications for climate change projections on marine communities

(2011) MAUD C. O. FERRARI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Unpublished results hide the decline effect

(2011) Jonathan Schooler   NATURE

Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries

(2011) Daniele Fanelli   SCIENTOMETRICS

Oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance: a matrix for integrating climate-related stressor effects in marine ecosystems

(2010) H.-O. Portner   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Climate change effects on fishes and fisheries: towards a cause-and-effect understanding

(2010) H. O. Pörtner et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Publish your computer code: it is good enough

(2010) Nick Barnes   NATURE

Replenishment of fish populations is threatened by ocean acidification

(2010) P. L. Munday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ocean acidification disrupts the innate ability of fish to detect predator olfactory cues

(2009) Danielle L. Dixson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interacting effects of elevated temperature and ocean acidification on the aerobic performance of coral reef fishes

(2009) PL Munday et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ocean acidification impairs olfactory discrimination and homing ability of a marine fish

(2009) Philip L. Munday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ECOLOGY: Physiology and Climate Change

(2008) H. O. Portner et al.   SCIENCE