Social and medical sciences have found that they obtain contradictory
results around half of the time when they redo studies (much less in some
fields). In ecology, it is difficult and expensive to redo studies and we
expect far more variation in results due to environmental stochasticity, so
we are unsure of how replicable the ecology literature is. There are a few
ways of trying to evaluate this without breaking the bank: conducting
multiverse analysis or a many-analyst study, partnering with other labs for
large-scale collaborations, investigating the prevalence of practices known
to lead to low replicability of results, and changing how we critically
evaluate the literature. This talk will draw together interdisciplinary and
ecological learnings on each of these topics to showcase some key advances
in ecological meta-research.