Ah the early 80’s war between experimental and comparative ecologists!
It led to this gem by Jared Diamond on the four types of experiments in ecology: lab, field, time series, geo-comparisons.
I started every Community Ecology class with it.
Highly relevant…again.
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Mike Kaspari
There are ways in which I agree with this (strongly!), yet also, ways that I disagree (experiments are not the end-all be-all solution…scaling problems there!)
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Nature Climate Change - Increasing risks of post-experimental ecology
