Conclusions and Future Directions
Abstract The Kluane Region of the boreal forest has been particularly well studied during this 10-year project, and we were fortunate to begin our project with a strong background of ecological research that had been carried out since the 1950s at the Arctic Institute of North America Kluane Researc...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2001
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195133936.003.0020 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52511022/isbn-9780195133936-book-part-20.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The Kluane Region of the boreal forest has been particularly well studied during this 10-year project, and we were fortunate to begin our project with a strong background of ecological research that had been carried out since the 1950s at the Arctic Institute of North America Kluane Research Station. The boreal forest is a large and diverse ecozone, and our studies have been done on one special part of it. This caution must form the back ground of all our conclusions. As scientists we will generalize to the boreal forests of North America, and we hope that our results will be found to apply in general to this ecozone from Alaska to Newfoundland. But, of course, we do not know if this is correct until further work has been done in many locations to look for generalities and for differences. Ecological research is both blessed and cursed by this dilemma of applicability as it sits midway between the elegant generality of physics and the complex special cases of sociology. We generalize our results as hypotheses for future evaluation. |
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