PLoS Biology (Nov 2022)

Reanalysis shows there is not an extreme decline effect in fish ocean acidification studies.

  • Philip L Munday

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001809
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 11
p. e3001809

Abstract

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This Formal Comment uses re-analysis after appropriate corrections to claim that the extreme decline effect reported by Clements et al. is a statistical artefact caused by the way they corrected for zeros in percentage data, exacerbated by errors in data compilation, selective data inclusions and missing studies with strong effects.