The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205(3), P. 280 - 284
Published: Oct. 31, 2024
AbstractAs scientists, our collective goal is to make scientific progress in the pursuit of an absolute truth about nature universe, through a feedback loop observation, theory, and experimentation. What if major limit not science itself but rather how broadly ideas can be understood? In this introduction special feature, we highlight four articles, each tasked with demystifying key theory ecology for general audience, focus on aspects that have been misunderstood, misapplied, or underappreciated some important way. These theories are metabolic competition based consumer-resource models, mechanisms coexistence fluctuating environments, metapopulation dynamics. We point out ways which article applied best practices accessible communication as well challenges might arise (and potential solutions journals authors) when attempting publish articles deeper emphasis explanation fundamentals than traditional provide.
Language: Английский