Synthesis of primary ecological data is often assumed to achieve a notion of ‘generality’, through the quantification of overall effect sizes and consistency among studies, and has become a dominant ...

Moreover, quantitative methods can fruitfully complement qualitative example-based research: large- or medium-scale multivariate data analyses have the potential to provide descriptions of ...

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