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Models in ecology: ubiquitous, idealized, useful

Jay Odenbaugh: Ecological models. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 75 pp, $18.00 PB

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  2. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

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Dresow, M., Stanton, D. Models in ecology: ubiquitous, idealized, useful. Metascience 29, 409–412 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00554-8

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