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The authors are thankful to S. Ghani for conducting the network diagram for Fig. 1, using resources and services at the Visualization Core Lab at KAUST.
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Anton, A., Geraldi, N.R., Lovelock, C.E. et al. Reply to: Indiscriminate data aggregation in ecological meta-analysis underestimates impacts of invasive species. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 315–317 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1118-5
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