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Data availability and model complexity, generality, and utility: a reply to Lonergan.

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Published in Trends Ecol Evol on April 04, 2014

Authors

Matthew R Evans1, Tim G Benton2, Volker Grimm3, Catherine M Lessells4, Maureen A O'Malley5, Aristides Moustakas6, Michael Weisberg7

Author Affiliations

1: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Electronic address: m.evans@qmul.ac.uk.
2: Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
3: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Department of Ecological Modelling, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
4: Nederlands Institut voor Ecologie, PO Box 50, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
5: Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Quadrangle A14, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
6: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
7: Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 433 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

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