Models run for: Sánchez-Tójar, A., Moran, N.P., O'Dea, R.E., Reinhold, K., Nakagawa, S. *In press*. Illustrating the importance of meta-analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution. *Journal of Evolutionary Biology* (preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/yhfvk) The GitHub repository containing all data and code for this study is available at Zenodo (doi: [10.5281/zenodo.3843018](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3843018)). Please, cite the Zenodo repository when using any of the materials of this project, along with the original publication. ---------- **Content**: This component contains the Bayesian models that we run for this project. That is, one does not need to rerun our Bayesian models, and can simply import this models into R. This not only saves time, but increases reproducibility. More information about the models (including the code) in the following component: https://osf.io/mgstr/ ---------- *For further questions contact*: [Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=Sh-Rjq8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate) (twitter: [@ASanchez_Tojar](https://twitter.com/ASanchez_Tojar); email: **alfredo.tojar@gmail.com**)