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Evidence-based environmental management is being hindered by difficulties in locating, interpreting and synthesizing relevant information among vast scientific outputs. But software developments that allow enhanced collation and sharing of data will help.

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Fig. 1: The synthesis gap.

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  1. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Martin J. Westgate & David B. Lindenmayer

  2. Mistra EviEM, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Neal R. Haddaway

  3. NCEAS, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Samantha H. Cheng

  4. Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Julie Ann Wrigley School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Samantha H. Cheng

  5. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Emma J. McIntosh

  6. York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, UK

    Chris Marshall

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Westgate, M.J., Haddaway, N.R., Cheng, S.H. et al. Software support for environmental evidence synthesis. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 588–590 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0502-x

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