Reply to Mupepele and Dormann ‘Evidence Ranking Needs to Reflect Causality’

In their letter, Mupepele and Dormann [ 1 Mupepele A.C. Dorman C.F. Evidence ranking needs to reflect causality. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2019; (Published online November 28, 2019)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.013 PubMed Scopus (2) Google Scholar ] argue that causality, in conservation effectiveness studies, can be established only by replicated randomized controlled trials (RCTs), whereas quasi-experimental studies, and studies where...