The final part of my PhD dissertation will be a biocrust restoration meta-analysis which was started with a Powell Center working group many years ago. I have been reading tutorials and papers about meta-analysis generally, to get a sense for the methods I will be learning/employing. I have two awesome students working with me this summer to curate the biocrust database that was started by the working group. We will be checking the data together and then starting some analyses in R.
Meta-analysis is a powerful technique of quantitatively drawing together many separate scientific works to synthesize information. I did not know that I would be working on meta-analysis when I started my PhD, but I have now seen that many PhD students incorporate meta-analysis into one of their dissertation chapters as a way of broadening beyond their single experimental studies and contributing to their field in a more synthetic way. I think that it will be useful to learn, but also a huge challenge for me in the coming months.
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AuthorSierra is a graduate student in the Barger Lab at CU Boulder studying microbial ecology for dryland restoration. Archives
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