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RESUME
The Chapter One of the Book
APPLIED ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Guy R. McPherson and Stephen DeStefano. 2003.
Cambridge University Press
ECOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
As a science, ecology has many patterns in nature that can be observed using scientific
method. This method should explain the mechanism of patterns and answer why these a pattern
occurs using experiments from a modern scientific perspective. Including using a hypothesis to
define the patterns, while the hypothesis itself will enter the testing phase. Testing with statistical
hypotheses is not just a simple tests to reject the default statement (Ho) but also to find detail and
exact the parameters of interest. Suggestion to establish research hypotheses and the testing
hypotheses in an experimental framework has been made alongside the use of modern technological
or methodological tools.
variables and the factors under study. On the contrary, most managers rely heavily on the results of
descriptive research that is very unreliable and weak because no test involved.