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Ecological Understanding : The Nature of Theory and the Theory of Nature, PDF eBook

Ecological Understanding : The Nature of Theory and the Theory of Nature PDF

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Ecology is an historical science in which theories can be as difficult to test as they are to devise.

This volume, intended for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, reviews ecological theories, and how they are generated, evaluated, and categorized.

Synthesizing a vast and sometimes labyrinthine literature, this book is a useful entry into the scientific philosophy of ecology and natural history.

The need for integration of the contributions to theory made by different disciplines is a central theme of this book.

The authors demonstrate that only through such integration will advances in ecological theory be possible.

Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and other serious students of natural history will want this book.

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