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On the importance of experimental design: pitfall traps and arthropod communities
Ignasi Bartomeus
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Ignasi Bartomeus. On the importance of experimental design: pitfall traps and arthropod communi- ties. 2019, pp.100030. �10.24072/pci.ecology.100030�. �hal-02611846�
On the importance of
experimental design: pitfall traps and arthropod
communities
Ignasi Bartomeus based on reviews by Cécile ALBERT and Matthias Foellmer
A recommendation of:
Antoine Gardarin and Muriel Valantin-Morison. Which pitfall traps and sampling efforts should be used to evaluate the effects of cropping systems on the taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod communities? (2019), Zenodo, 3468920, ver. 3 peer- reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Ecology.
10.5281/zenodo.3468920
Submitted: 08 January 2019, Recommended: 04 October 2019
Cite this recommendation as:
Ignasi Bartomeus (2019) On the importance of experimental design: pitfall traps and arthropod communities. Peer Community in Ecology, 100030. 10.24072/pci.ecology.100030
Despite the increasing refinement of statistical methods, a robust experimental design is still one of the most important cornerstones to answer ecological and evolutionary questions.
However, there is a strong trade-off between a perfect design and its feasibility. A common mantra is that more data is always better, but how much is enough is complex to answer, specially when we want to capture the spatial and temporal variability of a given
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Published: 4 October 2019
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