Biodiv Sci

• Special Feature: Ecological Data Analysis Methods •    

Methods of data analysis: Unpacking the “black box” in ecology

Shuang Zhang1*, Yi Zou2, Huijie Qiao3, Jian Zhang4   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China 

    2 Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China 

    3 State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 

    4 Innovation Center for Evolutionary Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  • Received:2026-01-25 Accepted:2026-01-26 Online:2026-01-20 Published:2026-02-09
  • Contact: Shuang Zhang