Stepping in the same river twice: replication in biological research

Foreword / W. John Kress

Introduction : Replication Across Disciplines. Toward a taxonomy of scientific replication / Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison

Borges on replication and concept formation / Yemima Ben-Menahem

The historical emergence of replication : reifying geography through repeated surveys / Haim Goren

Replication in Biology : Overviews and Case Studies. The Value of Natural History Collections. Natural history collections as dynamic research archives / Tamar Dayan and Bella Galil

Looking to the past to plan for the future : using natural history collections as historical baselines / Rebecca J. Rowe

Repeatable Monitoring and Observations. Monitoring : repeated sampling for understanding nature / Avi Perevolotsky, Naama Berg, Orit Ginzburg, and Ron Drori

Monitoring the state of nature in Israel / Ron Drori, Naama Berg, and Avi Perevolotsky

Creating coherent time series through repeated measurements in a marine monitoring program / Yonathan Shaked and Amatzia Genin

Replication and Experiments. Contingent repeatability of experiments in time and space / Aaron M. Ellison

The influence of variation among replicates on repeatability / Jacob Pitcovski, Ehud Shahar, and Avigdor Cahaner

Meta-analysis and the Need for Repeatability. Replication and repetition in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in medicine / Leonard Leibovici and Mical Paul

Clinical heterogeneity in multiple trials of the antimicrobial treatment of cholera / Mical Paul, Ya'ara Leibovici-Weissman, and Leonard Leibovici

The Role of Metadata in Creating Reproducible Research. Reliable metadata and the creation of trustworthy, reproducible, and re-usable data sets / Kristin Vanderbilt and David Blankman

Replication of data analyses : provenance in R / Emery R. Boose and Barbara S. Lerner

Integration and Synthesis. Turning oranges into apples : using detectability correction and bias heuristics to compare imperfectly repeated observations / Morgan W. Tingley

Dissecting and reconstructing time and space for replicable biological research / Barbara Helm and Ayelet Shavit

Best practices for creating replicable research / Aaron M. Ellison

Epilogue: A chorus's dance with replication / Ayelet Shavit.