Mechanism, Process, and Causation in Ecological Models: A Reply to McGill and Potochnik.

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  • Sean R Connolly
  • Sally A Keith
  • Robert K Colwell
  • Carsten Rahbek
چکیده

We thank McGill and Potochnik (hereafter M&P) for a thoughtful and constructive response [1] to our paper [2]. In our view, there are two main elements to their response. First, they consider that our definition of a mechanistic model is too narrow. Second, they argue that the advantages that we attribute to what we term ‘process-based’ and ‘mechanistic’models (PBMs andMMs, respectively) are shared by a broader class of ‘causal’ models, which include, but are not limited to, PBMs and MMs.

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  • Trends in ecology & evolution

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تاریخ انتشار 2017