Publications by authors named "Alyssa M Allen Gerwing"
In coastal ecosystems, infaunal (animals living within the sediment) invertebrates are used to study and monitor disturbances. However, it is an open question as to the minimal required sampling intensity to detect that a disturbance has influenced such communities. As such, we implemented a manipulative experiment using an infaunal community with a known response (community composition and population abundances) to a mechanical disturbance (sediment scour), to determine the minimum sampling intensity required to detect differences in the infaunal community.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur recent paper ( https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-020-00096-x ) reported that 43% of reviewer comment sets (n=1491) shared with authors contained at least one unprofessional comment or an incomplete, inaccurate of unsubstantiated critique (IIUC).
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- The study analyzed 1491 sets of peer-review comments in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavioral Medicine to assess issues like bias and professionalism.
- About 12% of comments contained unprofessional remarks, while 41% were found to be incomplete or inaccurate.
- The findings indicate that such negative feedback can cause distress for early-career researchers, highlighting the need for a universal reviewer code of conduct to enhance peer review quality.