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ReviewNature ecology & evolution2024

The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights.

Jennifer M Cocciardi, Ava M Hoffman, Diego F Alvarado-Serrano, Jill Anderson, Meghan Blumstein, Emma L Boehm, Lana G Bolin, Israel T Borokini, Gideon S Bradburd, Haley A Branch and 24 more

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Review in Nature ecology & evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Learning to learn ecosystems from limited data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Jennifer M CocciardiDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. jmcoccia@olemiss.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0107-3602
Ava M HoffmanDepartment of Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1833-4397
Diego F Alvarado-SerranoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5440-8181
Jill AndersonDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3253-8142
Meghan BlumsteinDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Emma L BoehmDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-7664
Lana G BolinDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1811-7234
Israel T BorokiniDepartment of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1258-7932
Gideon S BradburdDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8009-0154
Haley A BranchDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0886-1836
Lars A BrudvigDepartment of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3857-2165
Yanni ChenDepartment of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Scott L CollinsDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0193-2892
David L Des MaraisDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Diana GambaDepartment of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Niall P HananDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Jornada Basin LTER Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9130-5306
Mia M HowardDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-0366
Joseph JarosDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA.
Thomas E JuengerDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9550-9288
Nicholas J KooyersDepartment of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3398-7377
Ezra J KottlerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5842-5122
Jennifer A LauDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Mitra MenonDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
David A MoellerDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6202-9912
Thomas J MozdzerDepartment of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.
Seema N ShethDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Melinda SmithDepartment of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4920-6985
Katherine TollDepartment of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5571-0339
Mark C UngererDivision of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4454-8521
Megan L VahsenDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8226-6878
Susana M WadgymarBiology Department, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA.
Amy WaananenDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7940-3210
Kenneth D WhitneyDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-5469
Meghan L AvolioDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. meghan.avolio@jhu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-9159

Funding

NSF | BIO | Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) 2110351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientists must have an integrative understanding of ecology and evolution across spatial and temporal scales to predict how species will respond to global change. Although comprehensively investigating these processes in nature is challenging, the infrastructure and data from long-term ecological research networks can support cross-disciplinary investigations. We propose using these networks to advance our understanding of fundamental evolutionary processes and responses to global change. For ecologists, we outline how long-term ecological experiments can be expanded for evolutionary inquiry, and for evolutionary biologists, we illustrate how observed long-term ecological patterns may motivate new evolutionary questions. We advocate for collaborative, multi-site investigations and discuss barriers to conducting evolutionary work at network sites. Ultimately, these networks offer valuable information and opportunities to improve predictions of species' responses to global change.

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Biological EvolutionEcologyClimate ChangeEcosystem

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PMID39095611

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