Illustrating the importance of meta-analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution.

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Meta-analysis is increasingly used in biology to both quantitatively summarize available evidence for specific questions and generate new hypotheses. Although this powerful tool has mostly been deployed to study mean effects, there is untapped potential to study effects on (trait) variance. Here, we use a recently published data set as a case study to demonstrate how meta-analysis of variance can be used to...

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