Planning & Question formulation
Foo YZ, O’Dea RE, Koricheva J, Nakagawa S & Lagisz M (2021) A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13654.
Haddaway NR & Westgate MJ (2018) Predicting the time needed for environmental systematic reviews and systematic maps. Conservation Biology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13231.
Haddaway NR, Bethel A, Dicks LV, Koricheva J, Macura B, Petrokofsky G, Pullin AS, Savilaakso S & Stewart GB (2020) Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them. Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01295-x.
Livoreil B, Glanville J, Haddaway NR, Bayliss H, Bethel A, Flamerie de Lachapelle F, Robalino S, Savilaakso S, Zhou W, Petrokofsky G & Frampton G (2017) Systematic searching for environmental evidence using multiple tools and sources. Environmental Evidence, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-017-0099-6.
Navarro C, Berrebi B, Livoreil B, Richard G & Soubelet H (2020) Méthodes d’expertise : comment les utiliser ? Expertise et synthèse. Paris, France : FRB, 104p. URL: https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/guide-des-methodes-dexpertise/.
Databases & Search engines
Systematic mapping
Haddaway NR, Bernes C, Jonsson B-G & Hedlund K (2016) The Benefits of systematic mapping to evidence-based environmental management. Ambio, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0773-x.
James KL, Randall NP & Haddaway NR (2016) A methodology for systematic mapping in environmental sciences. Environmental Evidence, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-016-0059-6.
Critical analysis & Systematic reviewing
Sordello R, Bertheau Y, Coulon A, Jeusset A, Ouédraogo DY, Vanpeene S, Vargac M, Villemey A, Witté I, Reyjol Y & Touroult J (2019) Les protocoles expérimentaux en écologie : principaux points clefs. UMS PatrNat, CESCO, Irstea. 32p. URL: https://www.patrinat.fr/fr/actualites/publication-dun-rapport-de-lums-sur-les-protocoles-experimentaux-6445.
CEE Critical Appraisal Tool: https://environmentalevidence.org/cee-critical-appraisal-tool/
Meta-analyses
Borenstein M, Hedges LV, Higgins JPT & Rothstein HR (2009) Introduction to meta-analysis. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470743386.
Koricheva J, Gurevitch J & Mengersen K (2013) Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton University Press, 592p. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hq6n
Nakagawa, S, Yang, Y, Macartney, EL et al. (2023) Quantitative evidence synthesis: A practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences. Environmental Evidence, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-023-00301-6.
R Packages
Lajeunesse MJ (2016) Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12472.
Viechtbauer W (2010) Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, doi: https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v036.i03.
Westgate MJ (2019) revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis. Research Synthesis Methods, doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1374.
Pick JL, Nakagawa S & Noble DWA (2019) Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise R package. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13118.
Grames EM, Stillman AN, Tingley MW & Elphick CS (2019) An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews using keyword co-occurrence networks. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13268.
Websites
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