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The complete story of Bridge Hill is yet to be told: A reply to Lewis and Clements
Author(s) -
BUCKNEY R. T,
MORRISON D. A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1993.tb00450.x
Subject(s) - herbarium , library science , art history , history , computer science , ecology , biology
The criticisms that Lewis and Clements (1993) make of our paper (Buckney & Morrison 1992) are unfounded. Some of the points they raise are based on unreasonable interpretations of one of our diagrams, some concern misrepresentations of our interpretations of the data and others are based on parts of our paper taken out of context. The questions discussed in our paper were solely concerned with the patterns of species distribution and abundance (a descriptive study), from which we produced a set of hypotheses that may explain the observed patterns. However, Lewis and Clements (1993) have not interpreted our paper in this spirit, and have therefore misinterpreted our work. Although they claim to be presenting the 'real' story of Bridge Hill, what they offer is a promise of additional data which might (or might not) help ecologists and managers to construct, in time, the whole story. Such data are certainly to be welcomed, but they may not resolve the issues raised.