While it's one thing, he says, to
employ ecological models to generate hypothesis for further testing, it's another matter entirely to present the results of these modeling exercises as predictions that policy makers and the public then interpret as forecasts.
Young proposes that
we employ an ecological model in thinking of a pluralistic society.
Not exact matches
Arguing that far more attention should be paid to validating
ecological models before ecologists use them to predict the future, Dormann says his own paper «is intended to call on the scientist
employing species distribution
models... to reflect more thoroughly on their merits and limitations.»