Effects of neonicotinoids on bees: an invalid experiment
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01/2018Metadata
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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.
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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
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Ecotoxicology
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Peer reviewed
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0963-9292Type
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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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