Editorial: The Journal of Negative Results in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract

gested in his article ‘Think Negative ’ that many disciplines would benefit if negative results were given public airing. He argued that science needs reports of negative results for the simple reason that similar investigations, which are often costly and time-consuming, are frequently duplicated and produce the same negative result. Since then, other scientists have expressed similar sen-timents (e.g., Knight 2003). Across the range of biological fields, table talk among ecologists and evolutionary biologists at all levels of aca-demia at some point produces a sigh followed by ‘If I had only known, I would have done things differently’. Recently, a number of the sciences have realised the gravity of the lack of published negative results, and have attempted to fill this publication void by producing journals

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