id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zmgj6te4rvbhxkoacjwssexyxe Alkistis Tania Elliott-Graves Generality and Causal Interdependence in Ecology 2018 23 .pdf application/pdf 5959 409 51 Microsoft Word Generality and Causal Interdependence in Ecology Preprint.docx A popular view in sciences that study complex systems is that achieving generality reduces ecology only became a truly scientific discipline when it applied simple, general models from Another strategy is the search for general models (that apply to many systems) (Levins achieve generality by omitting all the causal factors specific to particular systems and For Matthewson, ecological systems are not merely made up of many interacting parts plants interact with the same species of soil microbes across different systems (e.g. A representative ecological example of causal heterogeneity and its effect on model generality, constrained to within particular types of phenomena or systems is often sufficient so increasing generality results in decreasing the ability of models to include enough factors to "Finding Generality in Ecology: a Model for Globally Distributed "Do Simple Models Lead to Generality in Ecology?." Trends in ./cache/work_zmgj6te4rvbhxkoacjwssexyxe.pdf ./txt/work_zmgj6te4rvbhxkoacjwssexyxe.txt