Journal Article
Open science and meta‐analysis allow for rapid advances in ecology: A response to Menegotto et al. (2019)
Nicole L. Kinlock; Lisa Prowant; Emily M. Herstoff; Catherine M. Foley; Morodoluwa Akin‐Fajiye; Nicole Bender; Mihir Umarani; Hae Yeong Ryu; Bilgecan Şen; Jessica Gurevitch
Global Ecology and Biogeography · Vol. 28, Issue 10 · pp. 1533-1534 · 2019
Abstract
Menegotto and colleagues’ (2019) commentary on our paper (Kinlock et al., 2018) does not negate our findings, but by recategorizing and reanalysing a portion of our data set, advances our knowledge of the latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs) in marine ecosystems, particularly emphasizing different findings for benthic LDGs as a result of the recategorization of the data. Furthermore, we see the contribution by Menegotto et al. (2019) as highlighting the importance of scientific transparency; we believe that this insight into the nature of LDGs in marine systems would have been delayed, if not unobtainable, had we not provided fully transparent methods and complete data in our paper.