There and Back Again, or the Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Surveys.
We argue that 'locality', perhaps the most mundane term in ecology, holds a basic ambiguity: two concepts of space-nomothetic and idiographic-which are both necessary for a rigorous resurvey to "the same" locality in the field, are committed to different practices with no common measurement. A case...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 273 - 295 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2009
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| Sumario: | We argue that 'locality', perhaps the most mundane term in ecology, holds a basic ambiguity: two concepts of space-nomothetic and idiographic-which are both necessary for a rigorous resurvey to "the same" locality in the field, are committed to different practices with no common measurement. A case study unfolds the failure of the standard assumption that an exogenous grid of longitude and latitude, as fine-grained as one wishes, suffices for revisiting a species locality. We briefly suggest a scale-dependent "resolution" for this replication problem, since it has no general, rational solution. |
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