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Reviewnpj biodiversity2026

The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation.

Brendan M Anderson, James C Lamsdell, Amanda R Falk, Curtis R Congreve, Jonathan R Hendricks

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Review in npj biodiversity, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Brendan M AndersonDepartment of Geosciences, Union College, F.W. Olin Center, Schenectady, USA. BMA53@Cornell.edu.
James C LamsdellDepartment of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Amanda R FalkDepartment of Biology, Centre College, Danville, KY, USA.
Curtis R CongreveMarine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Jonathan R HendricksMilwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Funding

National Science Foundation 2225014
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large datasets have allowed biologists and palaeontologists to investigate a multitude of ecological processes. They have also obfuscated the ways in which our limited knowledge of ecology can affect our results. We focus on how our biased understanding of organismal natural history and taxonomy can have significant impacts on our perspective of ecological and evolutionary processes across multiple temporal and hierarchical scales, and suggest broad structural solutions to this problem.

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PMID41620561
PMCPMC12860799

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