In My Opinion: Hypotheses in wildlife science

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1325-1332

  Guthery, Fred S ^a,c   Lusk, Jeffrey J ^a   Peterson, Markus J ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wildlife Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Existential hypothesis; Hypothesis; Null hypothesis; Research hypothesis; Science; Wildlife science; Working hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 15544377814     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2004)032[1325:IMOHIW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (42)

1. ANDERSON, D. R., K. P. BURNHAM, AND W. L. THOMPSON. 2000. Null hypothesis testing: problems, prevalence, and an alternative. Journal of Wildlife Management 64: 912-923.
2. BARTEN, N. L., R. T. BOWYER, AND K. J. JENKINS. 2001. Habitat use by female caribou: tradeoffs associated with parturition. Journal of Wildlife Management 65: 77-92.
3. BEVERIDGE, W. I. B. 1957. The art of scientific investigation. Vintage Books, New York, New York, USA.
4. BURNHAM, K. P., AND D. R. ANDERSON. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference. Springer, New York, New York, USA.
5. CAIN, J. R., S. L. BEASOM, L. O. ROWLAND, AND L. D. ROWE. 1982. The effects of varying dietary phosphorus on breeding bobwhites. Journal of Wildlife Management 46: 1061-1065.
6. CAIN, J. R., AND R. J. LIEN. 1985. A model for drought inhibition of bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) reproductive systems. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 82A: 925-930.
7. CAIN, J. R., R. J. LIEN, AND S. L. BEASOM. 1987. Phytoestrogen effects on reproductive performance of scaled quail. Journal of Wildlife Management 51: 198-201.
8. CHAMBERLIN, T. C. 1890. The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science 15: 92.
9. CHERRY, S. 1998. Statistical tests in publications of The Wildlife Society. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26: 947-953.
10. CLARK, W. R., AND M. GRUNSTEIN. 2000. Are we hardwired? Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.
11. EDWARDS, A. W. F. 1992. Likelihood. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
12. ERRINGTON, P. L. 1945. Some contributions of a fifteen-year local study of the northern bobwhite to a knowledge of population phenomena. Ecological Monographs 15: 1-34.
13. FEYNMAN, R. P. 1998. The meaning of it all. Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts, USA.
14. GUTHERY, F. S. 1997. A philosophy of habitat management for northern bobwhites. Journal of Wildlife Management 61: 291-301.
15. GUTHERY, F. S. 1999. Slack in the configuration of habitat patches for northern bobwhites. Journal of Wildlife Management 63: 245-250.
16. GUTHERY, F. S., AND N. E. KOERTH. 1992. Substandard water intake and inhibition of bobwhite reproduction during drought. Journal of Wildlife Management 56: 760-768.
17. GUTHERY, F. S., C. L. LAND, AND B. W. HALL. 2001a. Heat loads on reproducing bobwhites in the semiarid subtropics. Journal of Wildlife Management 65: 111-117.
18. GUTHERY, F. S., J. J. LUSK, AND M. J. PETERSON. 2001b. The fall of the null hypothesis: liabilities and opportunities. Journal of Wildlife Management 65: 379-384.
19. HARVESON, L. A. 1995. Nutritional and physiological ecology of reproducing northern bobwhites in southern Texas. Thesis, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, USA.
20. HERMAN, S. G. 2002. Wildlife biology and natural history: time for a reunion. Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 933-946.
21. HERNÁNDEZ, F., S. E. HENKE, N. J. SILVY, AND D. ROLLINS. 2003. The use of prickly pear cactus as nesting cover by northern bobwhites. Journal of Wildlife Management 63: 417-423.
22. HILBORN, R., AND M. MANGEL. 1997. The ecological detective. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
23. HUNGERFORD, C. R. 1964. Vitamin A and productivity in Gambel's quail. Journal of Wildlife Management 23: 141-147.
24. HUTCHINSON, G. E. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 22: 415-427.
25. JOHNSON, D. H. 1999. The insignificance of statistical significance testing. Journal of Wildlife Management 63: 763-772.
26. KLIMSTRA, W. D., AND J. L. ROSEBERRY. 1975. Nesting ecology of the bobwhite in southern Illinois. Wildlife Monograph 41.
27. KREBS, C. J. 2000. Hypothesis testing in ecology. Pages 1-14 in L. Boitani and T. K. Fuller, editors. Research techniques in animal ecology. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA.
28. LEHMANN, V. W. 1953. Bobwhite population fluctuations and vitamin A. Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference 18: 199-246.
29. LEOPOLD, A. 1933. Game management. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA.
30. LEOPOLD, A. S. 1977. The California quail. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA.
31. LEOPOLD, A. S., M. ERWIN, AND J. OH. 1976. Phytoestrogens: adverse effects on reproduction in California quail. Science 191: 98-100.
32. MCCORQUODALE, S. M. 1991. Energetic considerations and habitat quality for elk in arid grasslands and coniferous forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 55: 237-242.
33. NESTLER, R. B. 1946. Vitamin A, vital factor in the survival of bobwhites. Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference 11: 176-195.
34. POINCARÉ, H. 1952. Science and hypothesis. Dover Publications, New York, New York, USA.
35. POPPER, K. 1959. The logic of scientific discovery. Basic Books, New York, New York, USA.
36. RAVE, D. P., AND G. A. BALDASSARRE. 1991. Carcass mass and composition of green-winged teal wintering in Louisiana and Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 55: 457-461.
37. ROBINSON, T. S., AND R. H. BAKER. 1955. Climate and bobwhite quail in Kansas - 1951-1954. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 58: 353-359.
38. ROMESBURG, H. C. 1981. Wildlife science: gaining reliable knowledge. Journal of Wildlife Management 45: 293-313.
39. ROMESBURG, H. C. 1991. On improving the natural resources and environmental sciences. Journal of Wildlife Management 55: 744-756.
40. SINCLAIR, A. R. E. 1991. Science and the practice of wildlife management. Journal of Wildlife Management 55: 767-773.
41. STANFORD, J. A. 1972. Bobwhite quail population dynamics: relationships of weather, nesting, production patterns, fall population characteristics, and harvest in Missouri quail. Proceedings of the National Bobwhite Quail Symposium 1: 115-139.
42. VAUGHAN, M. R., AND L. B. KEITH. 1981. Demographic response of experimental snowshoe hare populations to overwinter food shortage. Journal of Wildlife Management 45: 354-380.