Timely Delivery of Scientific Knowledge for Environmental Management: A Freshwater Science Initiative
In the coming months, FWS will begin to encourage authors who are submitting papers to enter metadata associated with their methods and results. As researchers, we all have a vested interest in seeing our research applied, and we are best placed to accurately enter our results and metadata into the database. As this initiative develops, we will be actively seeking feedback from submitting authors about the fields requested, and whether fewer, different, or additional fields are required. Our initiative is currently focused on papers that explicitly demonstrate relationships between two or more variables, but the concept could easily extend to other types of results (e.g., temporal trends in a single variable).