Testing hypotheses through data synthesis: preparing for success ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- You will: - Gain a roadmap of knowledge to guide you as you develop your data synthesis skills - Identify and find appropriate tools and terms to get started - Be familiar with examples of different kinds of data synthesis - Connect with other students interested in these approaches ---------- Part 1 - Mary O'Connor - Gotta have hypotheses, and hypotheses are hard - Mary's slides [here][1] Part 2 - Jennifer Sunday - What is what in data synthesis? How does this compare to other kinds of science? - Jenn's slides [here][2] Part 3 - Chris Lortie - How can we use generalized synthesis tools for stronger decision making? - What can general synthesis tools generate i.e., make? - And finally, what kind of general steps might one use to do a scientific synthesis in the environmental sciences. - [Part 3 Slide deck here][3] Part 4 - Joey Bernhardt - Tools for reproducible workflows - [Joey's slides here][4] ---------- Resources: (1) [Halpern et al. Ecological Synthesis and Its Role in Advancing Knowledge. BioScience, 2020.][5] (2) [Better late than never: a synthesis of strategic land retirement and restoration in California.][6] (3) Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00970.x (4) A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13664 (5) Too much of a good thing: Shrub benefactors are less important in higher diversity arid ecosystems https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13664 (6) A contrast of meta and metafor packages for meta-analyses in R https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6747 (7) Meta-analysis of Ecological Data in R https://bookdown.org/robcrystalornelas/meta-analysis_of_ecological_data/ ---------- Exit survey link [here][7] [1]: https://osf.io/jczqx/ [2]: https://osf.io/gbmsp/ [3]: https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Synthesis_for_decisions/14912436 [4]: https://osf.io/tvcs7/ [5]: https://osf.io/7a4v5/ [6]: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.2367 [7]: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41LwPvTiZnTk37o