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A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism

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Simberloff, D. A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism. Synthese 43, 3–39 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413854

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