There and Back Again, or the Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Surveys

Autor:	James R. Griesemer, Ayelet Shavit
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	History media_common.quotation_subject Ecology (disciplines) Locality Ambiguity Resolution (logic) Grid Field (geography) Epistemology Term (time) Philosophy History and Philosophy of Science Sociology Geographic coordinate system media_common
Zdroj:	Philosophy of Science. 76:273-294
ISSN:	1539-767X 0031-8248
DOI:	10.1086/649805
Popis:	We argue that ‘locality’, perhaps the most mundane term in ecology, holds a basic ambiguity: two concepts of space—nomothetic and idiographic—which are both necessary for a rigorous resurvey to “the same” locality in the field, are committed to different practices with no common measurement. A case study unfolds the failure of the standard assumption that an exogenous grid of longitude and latitude, as fine-grained as one wishes, suffices for revisiting a species locality. We briefly suggest a scale-dependent “resolution” for this replication problem, since it has no general, rational solution.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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