Kaiser, Marie I. and Morrow, Katie H. (2024) On the Epistemic Roles of the Individualized Niche Concept in Ecology, Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We characterize four fruitful and underappreciated epistemic roles played by the concept of an individualized niche in contemporary biology, utilizing results of a qualitative empirical study conducted within an interdisciplinary biological research center. We argue that the in-dividualized niche concept (1) shapes the research agenda of the center, (2) facilitates ex-plaining core phenomena related to inter-individual differences, (3) helps with managing in-dividual-level causal complexity, and (4) promotes integrating local knowledge from ecolo-gy, evolutionary biology, behavioral biology and other biological fields. We thereby also challenge arguments that the niche concept is superfluous in ecology.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Kaiser, Marie I. kaiser.m@uni-bielefeld.de 0000-0002-9307-7474 Morrow, Katie H. katherine.morrow@uni-bielefeld.de 0000-0002-4126-8121
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Explanation
Depositing User:	Dr. Marie I. Kaiser
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2024 12:32
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 12:32
Item ID:	23920
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Explanation
Date:	18 September 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23920

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