This time in our journal club we decide to take a slightly differ journey and read a psychology paper by Robert B. Cialdini (2003).
The author addresses a problem of how normative and injunctive environmental messages are perceived by people. The author argues that such message might promote behavior that is harmful to environment if they are placed in a wrong context. The article raised and emphasizes the importance of combining normative and injunctive messages to achieve the maximum effectiveness in building environmental awareness. Continue reading
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Reflection on INTECOL13 – Where are we heading?
The vibrant INTECOL13 conference has ended and it is time to reflect on the outstanding week of posters, plenary talks and presentations. Real difficult choices had to be made which talks to attend. Hundreds of great ideas from the conference will remain undocumented in this post. In this post, I will present only a tiny fraction of all the incredible ideas, discussions and future direction we as ecologist need to take. Continue reading
Meta-analysis in the world of systematic reviews
Paper by Scheper et al. 2013. Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss – a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12128
Discussed at the Journal Club 14 June 2013
The Journal Club’s article was this time a meta-analysis. First, our PostDoc Anni kindly explained us the basic principles of meta-analysis. The article written by Scheper et al. followed the most common type of meta-analysis. The idea is to compare two sets of results, or two means (i.e. of species richness) and as a result you receive the proportional difference which is described as Hedges’ d. Continue reading