PLoS Biology (Feb 2023)

Extreme original data yield extreme decline effects.

  • Jeff C Clements,
  • Josefin Sundin,
  • Timothy D Clark,
  • Fredrik Jutfelt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001996
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 2
p. e3001996

Abstract

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Clements et al. respond to Munday's claim that his "reanalysis shows there is not an extreme decline effect in fish ocean acidification studies". They contend that extreme data reported in early studies authored by Dixson and Munday indeed result in an "extreme" decline effect in this field, and conclude that the decline effect is primarily driven by papers by particular authors.