Indiscriminate data aggregation in ecological meta-analysis underestimates impacts of invasive species

Mads Solgaard Thomsen^{1

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¹ Centre for Integrative Ecology and Marine Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. mads.thomsen@canterbury.ac.nz.
² UWA Oceans Institute and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia. mads.thomsen@canterbury.ac.nz.

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Mads Solgaard Thomsen. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Mar.

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doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1117-6. Epub 2020 Feb 17.

Mads Solgaard Thomsen^{1

2}

¹ Centre for Integrative Ecology and Marine Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. mads.thomsen@canterbury.ac.nz.
² UWA Oceans Institute and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia. mads.thomsen@canterbury.ac.nz.

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Anton A, Geraldi NR, Lovelock CE, Apostolaki ET, Bennett S, Cebrian J, Krause-Jensen D, Marbà N, Martinetto P, Pandolfi JM, Santana-Garcon J, Duarte CM. Anton A, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Mar;4(3):315-317. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1118-5. Epub 2020 Feb 17. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32066890 No abstract available.

Global ecological impacts of marine exotic species.
Anton A, Geraldi NR, Lovelock CE, Apostolaki ET, Bennett S, Cebrian J, Krause-Jensen D, Marbà N, Martinetto P, Pandolfi JM, Santana-Garcon J, Duarte CM. Anton A, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 May;3(5):787-800. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0851-0. Epub 2019 Apr 8. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019. PMID: 30962561

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