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The basic reason for replicating experiments is to answer the question: If a competent experimenter were to reconstruct this experiment with approximately the same experimental manipulations and environmental conditions, what range of results would he observe? Attempting to answer this question for large-scale experiments faces us with two problems not encountered in small-scale laboratory experiments: (1) Replicate experiments are performed under different environmental conditions, and (2) the cost and size of an experiment make large numbers of replicate experiments impractical. This note discusses these two problems in general and then considers the evidence for replicability in two largescale marine experiments: the MERL No.2 fuel oil experiments at the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Narragansett, R.I., U.S.A., and the CEPEX mercury pollution experiments (Controlled Environmental Pollution Experiment, Saanich Inlet, British Columbia, Canada).
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Smith, W., Gibson, V.R., Grassle, J.F. (1982). Replication in Controlled Marine Systems: Presenting the Evidence. In: Grice, G.D., Reeve, M.R. (eds) Marine Mesocosms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5645-8_16
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