Is It What We Know or Who We Know? Choice of Organism and Robustness of Inference in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2006-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/501507PMID 16673340
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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