Replicating research in ecology and evolution: feasibility, incentives, and the cost-benefit conundrum

We believe that replicating studies in ecology and evolution is extremely valuable, but replication within species and systems is troublingly rare, and even ‘quasi-replications’ in different systems are often insufficient. We make a case for supporting multiple types of replications and point out th...

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Autores principales: Nakagawa, Shinichi, Parker, Timothy H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26510635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0196-3
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spelling pubmed-46246602015-10-30 Replicating research in ecology and evolution: feasibility, incentives, and the cost-benefit conundrum Nakagawa, Shinichi Parker, Timothy H. BMC Biol Comment We believe that replicating studies in ecology and evolution is extremely valuable, but replication within species and systems is troublingly rare, and even ‘quasi-replications’ in different systems are often insufficient. We make a case for supporting multiple types of replications and point out that the current incentive structure needs to change if ecologists and evolutionary biologist are to value scientific replication sufficiently. BioMed Central 2015-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4624660/ /pubmed/26510635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0196-3 Text en © Nakagawa and Parker. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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