Ecological Communities - Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

This work is the first to focus systematically on a much-debated topic: the conceptual issues of community ecology, including the nature of evidence in ecology, the role of experiments, attempts to disprove hypotheses, and the value of negative evidence in the discipline.

Originally published in 1984.

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Edited by Donald R. Strong, Jr., Daniel Simberloff, Lawrence G. Abele, & Anne B. Thistle

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This work is the first to focus systematically on a much-debated topic: the conceptual issues of community ecology, including the nature of evidence in ecology, the role of experiments, attempts to disprove hypotheses, and the value of negative evidence in the discipline.

Originally published in 1984.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Authors: Donald R. Strong, Donald R. Simberloff Strong
• Assisted by: Lawrence Abele (Editor), Lawrence G. Abele (Editor), Abele Lawrence G. (Editor), Daniel Simberloff (Editor), Simberloff Daniel (Editor), Donald Strong (Editor), Donald R. Strong (Editor), Strong Donald R. (Editor), Anne B. Thistle (Editor), Thistle Anne B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691612591
• ISBN: 978-0-691-61259-1
• No. of pages: 630
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, Science / Environmental Science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Environmental science, engineering and technology