Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

To make progress scientists need to know what other researchers have found and how they
found it. However, transparency is often insufficient across much of ecology and evolution …

We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their
use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically …

As the contribution for long-term ecological and environmental studies (LTEES) to our
understanding of how species and ecosystems respond to a changing global climate …

Recent years have seen an explosion in the availability of biodiversity data describing the
distribution, function, and evolutionary history of life on earth. Integrating these …

Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data
underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and …

Replication is a fundamental tenet of science, but there is increasing fear among scientists
that too few scientific studies can be replicated. This has been termed the “replication …

Although there are many examples of contemporary directional selection, evidence for
responses to selection that match predictions are often missing in quantitative genetic …

More and more ecologists have started to resurvey communities sampled in earlier decades
to determine long-term shifts in community composition and infer the likely drivers of the …

Aim Plant distributions and vegetation dynamics underpin key global phenomena, including
biogeochemical cycling, ecosystem productivity and terrestrial biodiversity patterns …