Effects of neonicotinoids on bees: an invalid experiment

Bailey, R. A.; Greenwood, J. J. D.

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Date

01/2018

Abstract

We use a recent study on the effects of neonicotinoids on bees as a concrete example to reinforce the advice of OEPP/EPPO (2010) that strong inference is impossible if there is no true replication and that analyses based on pseudoreplication are invalid.

Citation

Bailey , R A & Greenwood , J J D 2018 , ' Effects of neonicotinoids on bees: an invalid experiment ' , Ecotoxicology , vol. 27 , no. 1 , pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-017-1877-1

Publication

Ecotoxicology

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-017-1877-1

ISSN

0963-9292

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Journal item

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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-017-1877-1

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University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16444