Dissecting and reconstructing time and space for replicable biological research

Precise locations from global positioning systems and exact times from atomic clocks are often insufficient and potentially misleading attributes of an organism’s movements or physiology. A close look at autocorrelation of repeated samples can indicate the potential for successful replication and help us to identify relevant patterns in space and time. Appreciating the many components of space and time and accounting for their combined effects on data will improve the replicability of observational and experimental studies.