Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias.

Highlights: [•] Science and policy rely on reliable and unbiased communications. [•] Visualisations and graphics are a powerful means to communicate. [•] Ecology lacks appropriate expertise, skills, and knowledge in visualisation. [•] Great opportunities are available if we rethink the role of visualisation in our work. [•] The way we think about visualisation needs to be reframed within our disciplines. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]