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. 2015 Nov 17;112(46):E6262.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518473112. Epub 2015 Oct 27.

Reply to Salkeld et al.: Diversity-disease patterns are robust to study design, selection criteria, and publication bias

David J Civitello  1 , Jeremy Cohen  2 , Hiba Fatima  3 , Neal T Halstead  2 , Taegan A McMahon  4 , C Nicole Ortega  2 , Erin L Sauer  2 , Suzanne Young  2 , Jason R Rohr  2
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Reply to Salkeld et al.: Diversity-disease patterns are robust to study design, selection criteria, and publication bias

David J Civitello et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Funnel plot for supplementary analysis of mean effect sizes for the relationship between biodiversity and parasite abundance for 12 human zoonotic parasites. There is no evidence for funnel plot asymmetry, a potential indicator of publication bias, using either the rank correlation test or Egger’s regression test implemented in the metafor package in R (6).
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