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Methodology of Pollution Ecology: Problems and Perspectives

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Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota

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Abstract

Charles J. Krebs (1989) started his famous book Ecological Methodology with the following statement: ‘Ecologists collect data and, as in other fields in biology, the data they collect are to be used for testing hypotheses’. This is true, but where do the new hypotheses originate?

The roots of many theories, including the Newton’s law of universal gravitation and Darwin’s evolutionary theory, emerge from systematic or occasional observations. Accumulation of data on rainfall acidity, measurements of which for a long time were driven by scientific curiosity, in the 1950s and 1960s allowed scientists to determine the origin of acidity and recognise the damaging effects of acid rain. The importance of observational studies (sometimes termed mensurative experiments) still remains high, especially for environmental sciences, which often face novel problems associated with the rapid development of our civilisation.

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Kozlov, M.V., Zvereva, E.L., Zverev, V.E. (2009). Methodology of Pollution Ecology: Problems and Perspectives. In: Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota. Environmental Pollution, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2467-1_8

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