Evidence Ranking Needs to Reflect Causality

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¹ Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: anne-christine.mupepele@biom.uni-freiburg.de.
² Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

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Anne-Christine Mupepele et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2020 Feb.

. 2020 Feb;35(2):94-95.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.013. Epub 2019 Nov 29.

¹ Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: anne-christine.mupepele@biom.uni-freiburg.de.
² Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

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Keywords: evidence hierarchy; evidence-based practice; methodological quality.

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Reply to Mupepele and Dormann 'Evidence Ranking Needs to Reflect Causality'.
Burivalova Z, Miteva D, Salafsky N, Butler RA, Wilcove DS. Burivalova Z, et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2020 Feb;35(2):95-96. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.11.008. Epub 2019 Dec 25. Trends Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 31882279 No abstract available.

Evidence Types and Trends in Tropical Forest Conservation Literature.
Burivalova Z, Miteva D, Salafsky N, Butler RA, Wilcove DS. Burivalova Z, et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Jul;34(7):669-679. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.03.002. Epub 2019 Apr 29. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019. PMID: 31047718 Review.