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GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 537-540Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00276.x
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Geographical ecology; macroecology; mapping; Rapoport's rule; spatial autocorrelation; statistics
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Macroecology sits at the junction of, and can contribute to, the fields of ecology, biogeography, palaeontology and macroevolution, using a broad range of approaches to tackle a diverse set of questions. Here, we argue that there is more to macroecology than mapping, and that while they are potentially useful, maps are insufficient to assess macroecological pattern and process. The true nature of pattern can only be assessed, and competing hypotheses about process can only be disentangled, by adopting a statistical approach, and it is this that has been key to the development of macroecology as a respected and rigorous scientific discipline.
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