Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or purloined letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism

By Brian J. McGill, J. Nekola. 2010

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Environmental Engineering

1. E. Brockerhoff

In Global and Planetary Change

1. E. Brockerhoff
2. J. Houlahan
3. L. Barbaro

Citations in the corpus

• Bird functional diversity enhances insectivory at forest edges: a transcontinental experiment (2014, background): “The quest for mechanisms underlying species distribution patterns in macroecology is a matter of controversy (McGill & Nekola, 2010).”
• The priority of prediction in ecological understanding (2017, background): “The literature on causal modelling is deep (Grace 2006, Pearl 2009a, b) and well beyond the scope of this article; however, linking mechanistic understanding to accurate predictions is an important future challenge facing ecologists (McGill and Nekola 2010).”