Abstract
Natural history information is important for deciding the appropriateness of apparently proven theore tical models in particular cases, for interpreting controlled field experiments, for determining the ecological impor tance of individual species and the invasive potential of introduced species, for groundtruthing the extrinsic vari ables of ecological theory to evolutionary processes, for resolving unwarranted controversies into appropriate in terpretations for different species, and for more effective and reliable management of resources. Manuscripts with natural history information are commonly devalued by reviewers of journals for functional and applied ecology, although they are still the foundation of journals for re gional and evolutionary ecology. Gordon Orians conclud ed in 1962 that both functional ecology and evolu tionary ecology are valid and useful, and it would be a mistake to construct ecological theory exclusively on either.
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