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What do J-NABS papers tell us about the current state of knowledge in freshwayer benthic science?
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | What do J-NABS papers tell us about the current state of knowledge in freshwayer benthic science? |
| Creator | Creutzburg, B. R. Hawkins, Charles P. |
| Description | The approaches that researchers use to generate knowledge typically vary with the state of knowledge within a discipline: description of phenomena during early phases, documentation of patterns and explanatory proposals during intermediate stages, and tests of causal hypotheses and theory building during mature stages. Ideally, the approaches used will result in the most efficient maturation of knowledge given the current state of knowledge. However, this idea has seldom been examined for... |
| Date | 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/783 info:doi/10.1899/07-092.1 |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Subject | benthic freshwater J-NABS research approaches theory hypotheses prediction hypothetico-deductive approach pattern detection case study empirical induction deduction epistemology ecology |
