conbio-study-design
Use when defending the study design of a Conservation Biology manuscript — ecological sampling and inference (detection, spatial structure, pseudoreplication), comparative/observational and quasi-experimental designs (BACI), modeling and synthesis design, and human-dimensions methods. The journal judges each appropriate method on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill conbio-study-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Study Design (conbio-study-design) *Conservation Biology* accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the conservation question (`conbio-topic-selection`) to evidence that supports a **transferable, decision-relevant** conclusion. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation. ## When to trigger - Specifying sampling, comparison, or modeling design before fieldwork or analysis - A reviewer questioned detection, replication, spatial autocorrelation, or causal claims - Designing an intervention/management evaluation or a synthesis protocol - Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `conbio-literature-positioning` ## Field & observational ecology - **Account for detection.** Imperfect detection biases counts — use occupancy, distance sampling, or capture-recapture rather than raw indices when detection varies. - **Replication and scale.** Avoid pseudoreplication; define the independent unit; match the spatial and temporal scale of sampling to the inference. State the sampling frame. - **Spatial structure.** Address spatial autocorrelation
- When to trigger
- Field & observational ecology
- Comparative / quasi-experimental (intervention evaluation)
- Modeling & synthesis
- Human dimensions / social science
- The adjudication test (journal-specific)
- Anti-patterns
- Operating pass for Conservation Biology
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the conbio-study-design skill do?
Use when defending the study design of a Conservation Biology manuscript — ecological sampling and inference (detection, spatial structure, pseudoreplication), comparative/observational and quasi-experimental designs (BACI), modeling and synthesis design, and human-dimensions methods. The journal judges each appropriate method on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill conbio-study-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.