Completeness and Craft Standards in Ecological Theory

摘要: Clearly, good science permits us to “understand nature,” i.e. explain or predict both. Exactly what is meant by this unclear and varies between intellectual traditions. Since the publication of seminal works Volterra, theoretical ecology has continued involve an interplay natural history, applied mathematics, genetics. While curious tensions these three traditions may not have been critical during early pioneering stages ecological development, they now require examination.