Hi Ecolog, I just had the good fortune of participating in an Environmental Information Management course at UNM. Teaching a topic is always an illuminating experience because explaining is sometimes more challenging than doing. My job was to cover systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Here the slide decks I used if anyone else needs materials for this topic:
http://bit.ly/signif http://bit.ly/synframe http://bit.ly/systrev To cover the meta-analysis part, we used the new handbook for ecologists on the topic: http://bit.ly/ecohand However, a few of the students also suggested that editorial style summaries would be useful. I was working on two at the time and this gave me the impetus to finish them. As an experiment with friendly review, I posted them to PeerJ Preprints. If you have a sec and are interested in synthesis or meta-analyses, please give them a skim as I would appreciate feedback before I move forward. context paper: http://bit.ly/ecometa how to interpret paper: http://bit.ly/metaprac Thanks so much! Also, if you are interested in discussing this pre-print experiment, pop me a note too. cheers, chris.
