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Journal of Plankton Research 2006 28(9):877-878; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbl016
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Confronting complexity: reply to Le Quéré and Flynn

Thomas R. Anderson*

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK

* Corresponding Author: tra@noc.soton.ac.uk

Received May 20, 2006; accepted in principle May 26, 2006; accepted for publication June 7, 2006; published online June 13, 2006
Communicating editor: R.P. Harris

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Complexity pervades ecology. The search for unifying laws therefore entails that ‘biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding’ (Medawar, 1969Go). One approach to developing ecological theory is to abandon simplicity at the outset and operate at the highest appropriate organizational level (Dunbar, 1980Go). On this basis, Le Quéré (Le Quéré, 2006Go) issues a plea for inclusion of plankton functional types (PFTs) in plankton models because ‘we will not understand ecology until we . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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