1. There are no whole truths in meta-analyses: all their truths are half-truths.
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Lyons, Devin A., Arvanitidis, Christos, Blight, Andrew J., Chatzinikolaou, Eva, Guy‐Haim, Tamar, Kotta, Jonne, Queirós, Ana M., Rilov, Gil, Somerfield, Paul J., and Crowe, Tasman P.
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MICROALGAE ,ALGAL blooms ,MICROBIAL mats ,META-analysis ,ECOSYSTEMS ,BENTHIC animals ,BIOTIC communities ,AQUATIC animals - Abstract
The article discusses the work done on effects of macroalgal blooms and macroalgal mats on seven important measures of community structure and ecosystem functioning. The findings of original paper(Lyons et al., 2014) was re-analyzed by Thomsen & Wernberg (2015) in terms of reduction and increase in the abundance of communities by macroalgal blooms called ‘mainly infauna and ‘mainly epifauna, which have been explained and argued by the original researcher, considering it as half truth.
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- 2016
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