| Category |
Text Publication |
| Reference Category |
Journals |
| DOI |
10.1111/2041-210X.14164
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Licence  |
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| Title (Primary) |
A standard protocol to report discrete stage-structured demographic information |
| Author |
Gascoigne, S.J.L.; Rolph, S.; Sankey, D.; Nidadavolu, N.; Stell Pičman, A.S.; Hernández, C.M.; Philpott, M.E.R.; Salam, A.; Bernard, C.; Fenollosa, E.; Lee, Y.J.; McLean, J.; Hetti Achchige Perera, S.; Spacey, O.G.; Kajin, M.; Vinton, A.C.; Archer, C.R.; Burns, J.H.; Buss, D.L.; Caswell, H.; Che-Castaldo, J.P.; Childs, D.Z.; Capdevila, P.; Compagnoni, A.; Crone, E.; Ezard, T.H.G.; Hodgson, D.; Knight, T.M.; Jones, O.R.; Jongejans, E.; McDonald, J.; Tenhumberg, B.; Thomas, C.C.; Tyre, A.J.; Ramula, S.; Stott, I.; Tremblay, R.L.; Wilson, P.; Vaupel, J.W.; Salguero-Gómez, R. |
| Source Titel |
Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
| Year |
2023 |
| Department |
BZF; iDiv |
| Volume |
14 |
| Issue |
8 |
| Page From |
2065 |
| Page To |
2083 |
| Language |
englisch |
| Topic |
T5 Future Landscapes |
| Data and Software links |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7967074 |
| Supplements |
Supplement 1 |
| Keywords |
comparative demography; matrix population models; open access; reproducibility |
| Abstract |
- Stage-based demographic methods, such as matrix
population models (MPMs), are powerful tools used to address a broad
range of fundamental questions in ecology, evolutionary biology and
conservation science. Accordingly, MPMs now exist for over 3000 species
worldwide. These data are being digitised as an ongoing process and
periodically released into two large open-access online repositories:
the COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database and the COMADRE Animal Matrix
Database. During the last decade, data archiving and curation of
COMPADRE and COMADRE, and subsequent comparative research, have revealed
pronounced variation in how MPMs are parameterized and reported.
- Here, we summarise current issues related to the
parameterisation and reporting of MPMs that arise most frequently and
outline how they affect MPM construction, analysis, and interpretation.
To quantify variation in how MPMs are reported, we present results from a
survey identifying key aspects of MPMs that are frequently unreported
in manuscripts. We then screen COMPADRE and COMADRE to quantify how
often key pieces of information are omitted from manuscripts using MPMs.
- Over 80% of surveyed researchers (n = 60)
state a clear benefit to adopting more standardised methodologies for
reporting MPMs. Furthermore, over 85% of the 300 MPMs assessed from
COMPADRE and COMADRE omitted one or more elements that are key to their
accurate interpretation. Based on these insights, we identify
fundamental issues that can arise from MPM construction and
communication and provide suggestions to improve clarity,
reproducibility and future research utilising MPMs and their required
metadata. To fortify reproducibility and empower researchers to take
full advantage of their demographic data, we introduce a standardised
protocol to present MPMs in publications. This standard is linked to www.compadre-db.org,
so that authors wishing to archive their MPMs can do so prior to
submission of publications, following examples from other open-access
repositories such as DRYAD, Figshare and Zenodo.
- Combining and standardising MPMs parameterized from
populations around the globe and across the tree of life opens up
powerful research opportunities in evolutionary biology, ecology and
conservation research. However, this potential can only be fully
realised by adopting standardised methods to ensure reproducibility.
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| Persistent UFZ Identifier |
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=27252 |
Gascoigne, S.J.L., Rolph, S., Sankey, D., Nidadavolu, N., Stell Pičman, A.S., Hernández, C.M., Philpott, M.E.R., Salam, A., Bernard, C., Fenollosa, E., Lee, Y.J., McLean, J., Hetti Achchige Perera, S., Spacey, O.G., Kajin, M., Vinton, A.C., Archer, C.R., Burns, J.H., Buss, D.L., Caswell, H., Che-Castaldo, J.P., Childs, D.Z., Capdevila, P., Compagnoni, A., Crone, E., Ezard, T.H.G., Hodgson, D., Knight, T.M., Jones, O.R., Jongejans, E., McDonald, J., Tenhumberg, B., Thomas, C.C., Tyre, A.J., Ramula, S., Stott, I., Tremblay, R.L., Wilson, P., Vaupel, J.W., Salguero-Gómez, R. (2023):
A standard protocol to report discrete stage-structured demographic information
Methods Ecol. Evol. 14 (8), 2065 - 2083 10.1111/2041-210X.14164 |
