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To name or not to name: The effect of changing author gender on peer review

The peer review model is one of the most important tools used in science to assess the relative merit of research. We manipulated a published article to reflect one of the following four author designations: female, male, initial, and no name provided. This article was then reviewed by referees of both genders at various stages of scientific training. Name changing did not influence acceptance rates or quality ratings. Undergraduate referees were less critical than graduate students or postdoctoral researchers, independent of gender.

Conservation management approaches to protecting the capacity for corals to respond to climate change: A theoretical comparison

Multiple anthropogenic impacts, including bleaching from climate change‐related thermal stress, threaten coral reefs. Protecting coral capacity to respond to the increase in future thermal stress expected with climate change can involve (1) protecting coral reefs with characteristics indicative of greater resistance and resilience to climate change, and (2) reducing other anthropogenic impacts that are more likely to reduce coral resistance and resilience to climate change.

Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: Integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history

Crop pollination services

Ecological and life history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances

Habitat conversion, extinction thresholds, and pollination services in agroecosystems

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency

From science to action

A meta-analysis of bees response to disturbance