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

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 mi...

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Published in:PLOS Biology
Main Author: Munday, Philip L.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2022
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9681065/
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001809
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Summary: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.