For this article, I reviewed empirical studies finding significant ecological responses to
habitat fragmentation per se—in other words, significant responses to fragmentation …

ABSTRACT Several hypotheses, mainly Optimal Defense (OD), Carbon: Nutrient Balance
(CNB), Growth Rate (GR), and Growth-Differentiation Balance (GDB), have individually …

For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of
null-hypothesis significance tests made research on theories in the social sciences basically …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for experts in the most established and
widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic …

The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social
sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old. This …

The ecological literature reveals considerable confusion about the meaning of validation in
the context of simulation models. The confusion arises as much from semantic and …

Statistical hypothesis testing has been widely criticized by ecologists in recent years. I
review some of the more persistent criticisms of P values and argue that most stem from …

I review the mathematical and biological aspects of Hubbell's (2001) neutral theory of
species abundance for ecological communities, and clarify its historical connections with …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides the state of policy theory by presenting several of …