Exactly 50 years ago, in 1964, a landmark article whose two-word title, “Strong inference,” revealed little and evoked plenty, appeared in the hallowed pages of Science (Platt, 1964). Simply stated, Platt’s view of scientific research in its highest form proceeds through three steps: development of alternative hypotheses; design of crucial experiments to exclude one or more hypotheses; executio...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org F fires have swept into public and policy awareness over the past several decades, with an increase in the frequency of large fires in western North America (Westerling et al. 2006). At the same time, human settlements and other infrastructure are impinging on the wildland interface at an unprecedented rate, resulting in annual US f...

calcareous nannofossil assemblages recovered from a long, continuous section have been described from the sarayan region in lut block in east iran. the marine upper cretaceous sediments of this section yield medium diverse and well-preserved calcareous nannofossil assemblages. a structural analysis of upper cretaceous calcareous nannofloras has revealed 30 nannofossil species. a revised zonatio...

EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 17 January 2022Sec. Paleoecology Volume 9 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.827743

CORRECTION article Front. Ecol. Evol., 02 February 2023Sec. Paleoecology Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1138623

—The enigmatic fossil snipe Capella sp., previously known in the Greater Antilles by specimens recovered from the Bahamas and Cayman Islands, is recorded from three Quaternary cave deposits in western and central Cuba. This new material provides information about the paleoecology and ancient distribution of this taxon in the West