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How useful is the concept of habitat? – a critique
Author(s) -
Mitchell Sean C.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
oikos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.672
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1600-0706
pISSN - 0030-1299
DOI - 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13810.x
Subject(s) - habitat , argument (complex analysis) , appeal , value (mathematics) , class (philosophy) , population , ecology , epistemology , point (geometry) , geography , environmental ethics , sociology , computer science , biology , political science , mathematics , philosophy , law , biochemistry , demography , machine learning , geometry
The following argument regarding the quantitative value of the habitat concept is presented for discussion purposes. The discussion is not intended as a review of the habitat‐population literature (which is immense for any class of organism) and so does not include an exhaustive appeal to authority. Instead, the arguments are, largely, intended to stand or fall on their own merit, and the literature is used selectively to demonstrate a point.