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  <dc:contributor>Shawn T. McKinney</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Remy Rochette</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Jeff E. Houlahan</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2015</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We agree with Marquet and colleagues (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a id="xref-ref-1-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/4/341.2.full#ref-1"&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;) that the balance between theory and data is an important one. However, their description of what constitutes good theory in ecology ignores the most important characteristic of successful theory&amp;mdash;that it accurately and precisely describes the way the world works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1093/biosci/biv014</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Institute of Biological Sciences</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>On theory in ecology: Another perspective</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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