Ten suggestions to strengthen the science of ecology

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-351

  Belovsky, Gary E ^a   Botkin, Daniel B ^b   Crowl, Todd A ^c   Cummins, Kenneth W ^d,e   Franklin, Jerry F ^f   Hunter Jr , Malcolm L ^g   Joern, Anthony ^h   Lindenmayer, David B ⁱ   MacMahon, James A ^j   Margules, Chris R ^k,l   Scott, J Michael ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CA Cooperative Fishery Research Unit

^e HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j Department of Mathematics and Statistics   (United States)

^k Tropical Forest Research Centre ^*  (Australia)

^l CSIRO   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ecological theory; Ecology; Environmental policy; Population dynamics; Scientific method

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842633364     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0345:TSTSTS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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