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Recent Advances in Foraging Theory for Herbivores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

N.T. Hobbs
N.T. Hobbs*
Affiliation:
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA
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My remarks explore the role of theory in making progress in science generally and particularly in ecology. I discuss what theory is (and isn’t). I argue that theory is a fundamentally important part of doing science efficiently, and I discuss some exciting new approaches for combining theory, data, and statistics to enhance scientific understanding. I illustrate these approaches using examples from work on foraging by mammalian herbivores.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2002 , 2002 , pp. 235 - 236
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2002

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