ArticlePLoS biology2022
Reanalysis shows there is not an extreme decline effect in fish ocean acidification studies.
Article in PLoS biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hidden impacts of ocean warming and acidification on biological responses of marine animals revealed through meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Demonstrations of reproducibility are not reproducibility.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Recalibrating the significance of the decline effect in fish ocean acidification research.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Extreme original data yield extreme decline effects.PLoS biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
This Formal Comment uses re-analysis after appropriate corrections to claim that the extreme decline effect reported by Clements et al. is a statistical artefact caused by the way they corrected for zeros in percentage data, exacerbated by errors in data compilation, selective data inclusions and missing studies with strong effects.
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