Population: a central concept for ecology?
Population: a central concept for ecology?
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DOI：
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.970314.x
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Berryman, AA
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作者：
Berryman, AA
“寻找最好的概念并不是一种无聊的自负，因为一个科学家可能设计的实验，因此他可能发现的事实，以及他对这些事实的解释，取决于他如何看待自然。当我的同事毛里西奥·利马（Mauricio Lima）给我寄来随附的论文（加缪和利马，2002）时，它重新点燃了我对一份未完成的手稿的兴趣，试图解决他们提出的一些问题。本文提出的观点是基于这样一个前提，即生态学需要一个中心统一的概念，在此基础上建立一个连贯和实用的学科。我认为，从实际角度来看，”人口”是这一中心概念最合乎逻辑的选择，因此，这一概念需要有准确和明确的含义。这使我提出了一个”人口”的定义，我认为它具有这些特点。
" To search for the best concept is no idle conceit, because the experiments that a scientist may devise and therefore the facts he may discover, as well as the explanations that he offers for them, depend on how he conceives nature." Andrewartha and Birch (1984)When my colleague Mauricio Lima sent me the accompanying paper (Camus and Lima 2002) it rekindled my interest in an unfinished manuscript that attempts to address some of the questions and problems they pose. The ideas presented in this essay are based on the premise that ecology needs a central unifying concept upon which to build a coherent and practical discipline. I will argue that, from a practical point of view, the" population" is the most logical choice for that central concept and that, because of this, the concept requires a precise and unambiguous meaning. This leads me to propose a definition for" population" that, I think, has these qualities.