ROBITT: A tool for assessing the risk-of-bias in studies of temporal trends in ecology.

ABSTRACT: Aggregated species occurrence and abundance data from disparate sources are increasingly accessible to ecologists for the analysis of temporal trends in biodiversity. However, sampling biases relevant to any given research question are often poorly explored and infrequently reported; this can undermine statistical inference. In other disciplines, it is common for researchers to complete 'risk-of-bias' assessments to expose and document the potential for biases to undermine conclusions. The huge growth in available data, and recent controversies surrounding their use to infer temporal trends, indicate that similar assessments are urgently needed in ecology.We introduce ROBITT, a structured tool for assessing the 'Risk-Of-Bias In studies of Temporal Trends in ecology'. ROBITT has a similar f

SUBMITTER: Boyd RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541136 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature