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Callender, Craig (2021) On the Horns of a Dilemma: Let the Northern White Rhino Vanish or Intervene? [Preprint]

Coninx, Sabrina (2023) The Dark Side of Niche Construction: Challenges in Modern Medicine & Healthcare. [Preprint]

Currie, Adrian (2018) Big Dragons on Small Islands: generality and particularity in science. (review of Angela Potochnik's Idealization and the Aims of Science). [Preprint]

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Desmond, Hugh (2021) The Selectionist Rationale for Evolutionary Progress. [Preprint]

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Elliott-Graves, Alkistis (2020) The Value of Imprecise Prediction. [Preprint]

Elliott-Graves, Alkistis (2022) What are general models about? [Preprint]

Elliott-Graves, Alkistis (2020) What is a Target System? [Preprint]

Gregorius, Hans-Rolf and Gillet, Elizabeth M. (2021) The concept of evenness/unevenness – Less evenness or more unevenness? [Preprint]

Havstad, Joyce C (2019) Let Me Tell You ‘Bout the Birds and the Bee-Mimicking Flies and Bambiraptor. [Preprint]

Hazelwood, Caleb (2023) An Emerging Dilemma for Reciprocal Causation. [Preprint]

Heger, Tina (2022) What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology. [Preprint]

Hoffman, Kate Nicole (2023) Justifying Nature-based Solutions. [Preprint]

Jones, Elis (2021) Distinguishing regeneration from degradation in coral ecosystems: the role of value. [Preprint]

Jones, Elis (2024) Exploring the socio-ecology of science: the case of coral reefs. [Preprint]

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

Kostic, Daniel and Hilgetag, Claus and Tittgemeyer, Marc (2020) Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks: biological insights and philosophical foundations. [Preprint]

Kostyrka, Gladys (2015) Disease ecology and the concept of emerging infectious disease: its impact on the epidemiology of rabies virus, 1990s-2010s. [Preprint]

Kostyrka, Gladys (2015) Interspecies transmission and viral epidemics: integration of molecular and ecological approaches in the epidemiology of two RNA viruses (1989-2010s). [Preprint]

Krohs, Ulrich (2022) Darwin’s empirical claim and the janiform character of fitness proxies. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2019) Can Communities Cause? [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2020) General Unificatory Theories in Community Ecology. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2018) Indexically Structured Ecological Communities (Phil sci Published). [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2021) Invasive Species Increase Biodiversity and, Therefore, Services: An Argument of Equivocations. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2020) Invasive Species and Natural Function in Ecology. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2017) Preserving the Tree of Life. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2023) Synthetic Biology and the Goals of Conservation. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher and Doolittle, W. Ford and Bielawski, Joseph (2022) Community-level evolutionary processes: Linking community genetics with replicator-interactor theory. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher and Jones, Christopher (2023) The Evolution of Multispecies Populations: A Multilevel Selection Perspective. [Preprint]

Linquist, Stefan and Cottenie, Karl and Elliott, Tyler and Saylor, Brent and Kremer, Stefan and Gregory, T. Ryan (2015) Applying ecological models to communities of genetic elements: the case of neutral theory. [Preprint]

Linquist, Stefan and Saylor, Brent and Cottenie, Karl and Elliott, Tyler A. and Kremer, Stefan C. and Gregory, T. Ryan (2013) Distinguishing ecological from evolutionary approaches to transposable elements. [Preprint]

Ludwig, David and El-Hani, Charbel (2019) Philosophy of Ethnobiology: Understanding Knowledge Integration and Its Limitations. [Preprint]

Makineni, Vamsi and Sarkar, Sahotra (2021) ‘Biodiversity’ as a Primarily Normative and Inseparable Thick Concept. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2013) Environmental Ethics. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2012) Exploring the Status of Population Genetics: The Role of Ecology. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2015) Re-examining the Darwinian Basis for Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2017) Debunking Myths About Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2019) Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2016) Is Aldo Leopold's ‘Land Community’ an Individual? [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2019) Types of Experiments and Causal Process Tracing: What Happened on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2023) The coevolution of descriptive and evaluative beliefs in Aldo Leopold's thinking. [Preprint]

Mitchell, Sandra D. (2000) The Import of Uncertainty. [Preprint]

Morrow, Katie H. (2022) A Causal-Role Account of Ecological Role Functions. [Preprint]

Morrow, Katie H. (2023) Neutral and Niche Theory in Community Ecology: A Framework for Comparing Model Realism. [Preprint]

Morrow, Katie H. (2024) Niches and Niche Models. [Preprint]

Morrow, Katie H. (2023) A scale problem with the ecosystem services argument for protecting biodiversity. [Preprint]

Munoz, François and huneman, philippe (2016) From the neutral theory to a comprehensive and multiscale theory of ecological equivalence. [Preprint]

O'Malley, Maureen A. and Parke, Emily C. (2018) Microbes, mathematics, and models. [Preprint]

Pence, Charles H. (2023) Putting Ambiguity to Work: Biodiversity and Rules of Engagement for Vagueness in Science. [Preprint]

Poliseli, Luana (2020) The emergence of scientific understanding in current ecological research practice. [Preprint]

Poliseli, Luana and Coutinho, Jeferson and Viana, Blandina and Russo, Federica and El-Hani, Charbel (2022) Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. [Preprint]

Potochnik, Angela and McGill, Brian (2012) The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization. [Preprint]

Ross, Lauren N. (2018) Causal concepts in biology: How pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters. [Preprint]

Rouse, Joseph (2024) Niches and Niche Construction in Biology and Scientific Practice. [Preprint]

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Sarkar, Sahotra (2001) Defining 'Biodiversity'; Assessing Biodiversity. [Preprint]

Scholl, Raphael (2016) Spot the difference: Causal contrasts in scientific diagrams. [Preprint]

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Sterner, Beckett and Elliott, Steve (2023) How Data Governance Principles Influence Participation in Biodiversity Science. [Preprint]

Sterner, Beckett and Elliott, Steve and Gilbert, Ed and Franz, Nico (2020) Data Integration without Unification. [Preprint]

Takacs, Peter and Bourrat, Pierrick (2022) The Arithmetic Mean of What? A Cautionary Tale About the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness. [Preprint]

Thinius, Alex and Trappes, Rose (2024) Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice. [Preprint]

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V S, Ananth and D K K, Vamsi (2021) Achieving Minimum-Time Biological Conservation and Pest Management for Additional Food provided Predator-Prey Systems involving Inhibitory Effect : A Qualitative Investigation. [Preprint]

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Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2021) Extending animal welfare science to include wild animals. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) The Scaffolded Evolution of Human Communication. [Preprint]

Verpooten, Jan (2024) Behavioural ecology of sexual autonomy and the case of protection against risky courtship. [Preprint]

Weisberg, Michael and Reisman, Kenneth (2008) The Robust Volterra Principle. [Preprint]

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Almassi, Ben (2024) Revaluations of 'Paiute Forestry': Prescribed Burning as Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Botero, Maria (2009) More than Designing an Ethogram, The Implications of Choosing a Methodology in Primatology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Fenton-Glynn, Luke (2014) Ceteris Paribus Laws and Minutis Rectis Laws. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Justus, James (2006) Ecological and Lyapunov Stability. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Justus, James (2004) Qualitative Scientific Modeling and Loop Analysis. In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Justus, James (2004) Qualitative Scientific Modeling and Loop Analysis. In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Lean, Christopher (2016) Indexically Structured Ecological Communities. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Linquist, Stefan (2015) Against Lawton’s contingency thesis, or, why the reported demise of community ecology is greatly exaggerated. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Millstein, Roberta L. (2014) How the Concept of 'Population' Resolves Concepts of 'Environment'. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Millstein, Roberta L. (2015) Is Aldo Leopold's 'Land Community' an Individual? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Millstein, Roberta L. (2014) Types of Experiments and Causal Process Tracing: What Happened on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Millstein, Roberta L. (2017) Understanding Leopold’s Concept of ‘Interdependence’ for Environmental Ethics and Conservation Biology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Panebianco, Fabrizio and Serrelli, Emanuele (2013) Eco-phenotypic physiologies: a new kind of modeling for unifying evolution, ecology and cultural transmission. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Powers, Jack (2014) Atrazine Research and Criteria of Characterizational Adequacy. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Roughgarden, Joan (2012) Individual Based Models in Ecology: An Evaluation, or How Not to Ruin a Good Thing. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Shavit, Ayelet (2014) You Can't Go Home Again - or Can you? 'Replication' Indeterminacy and 'Location' Incommensurability in Three Biological Re-Surveys. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Wilson, Brad (2009) Experiments in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Aaby, Bendik and Ramsey, Grant (2019) Three Kinds of Niche Construction. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537

Barberousse, Anouk (2021) Biodiversity databanks and scientific exploration. Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 8 (2). pp. 32-43. ISSN 2295-8029

Bocking, Stephen (2007) Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1 (1). pp. 48-57. ISSN 1913 0465

Conix, Stijn and Cuypers, Vincent and Pence, Charles H. (2024) Measuring and Explaining Disagreement in Bird Taxonomy. European Journal of Taxonomy, 943 (1). pp. 288-307.

Desjardins, Eric and Donhauser, Justin and Barker, Gillian (2018) Ecological Historicity, Functional Goals, and Novelty in the Anthropocene. Environmental Values.

Deulofeu, Roger and Suárez, Javier (2018) When Mechanisms Are Not Enough: The Origin of Eukaryotes and Scientific Explanation. Philosophy of Science, 9. pp. 95-115. ISSN 2365-4228

Donhauser, Justin (2017) Differentiating and defusing theoretical Ecology's criticisms: A rejoinder to Sagoff's reply to Donhauser (2016). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 63 (Supple). 70 - 79.

Donhauser, Justin (2016) Making Ecological Values Make Sense: Toward More Operationalizable Ecological Legislation. Ethics and the Environment, 21 (2). pp. 1-25.

Donhauser, Justin (2016) Theoretical ecology as etiological from the start. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 60. 67 - 76.

El-Hani, Charbel and Ludwig, David and Poliseli, Luana (2022) Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91. pp. 296-306.

Elliott, Steve (2019) Research Problems. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882

Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro and Grant, Ramsey (2024) Driftability and niche construction. Synthese, 204 (162). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1573-0964

Giroux, Élodie (2021) L’exposome : vers une science intégrative des expositions ? Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 8 (3). pp. 9-28. ISSN 2295-8029

Hazelwood, Caleb (2021) The Species Category as a Scientific Kind. Synthese.

Ludwig, David (2018) Does Cognition Still Matter in Ethnobiology? Ethnobiology Letters.

Ludwig, David and Poliseli, Luana (2018) Relating traditional and academic ecological knowledge: mechanistic and holistic epistemologies across cultures. Biology & Philosophy, 33 (43). ISSN 1572-8404

Millstein, Roberta L. (2020) Defending a Leopoldian basis for biodiversity: a response to Newman, Varner, and Linquist. Biology & Philosophy, 35 (12). ISSN 1572-8404

Ndhlovu, Andrew and Durand, Pierre and Ramsey, Grant (2020) Programmed cell death as a black queen in microbial communities. Molecular Ecology. pp. 1-10.

Pernu, Tuomas K. and Helanterä, Heikki (2019) Social evolution and the two elements of causation. Oikos, 128. pp. 905-911.

Perpinyà, Max Bautista and Pence, Charles H. (2023) David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking. BJPS Review of Books.

Plutynski, A (2008) "Ecology and the Environment". Oxford Handbook in Philosophy of Biology.

Pradeu, Thomas and Kostyrka, Gladys and Dupré, John (2016) Understanding viruses: Philosophical investigations. Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences. ISSN 1879-2499

Pradeu, Thomas (2016) The many faces of biological individuality. Biology and Philosophy, 31 (6). pp. 761-773.

Pradeu, Thomas and Daignan‐Fornier, Bertrand and Ewald, Andrew and Germain, Pierre‐Luc and Okasha, Samir and Plutynski, Anya and Benzekry, Sébastien and Bertolaso, Marta and Bissell, Mina and Brown, Joel S. and Chin‐Yee, Benjamin and Chin‐Yee, Ian and Clevers, Hans and Cognet, Laurent and Darrason, Marie and Farge, Emmanuel and Feunteun, Jean and Galon, Jérôme and Giroux, Elodie and Green, Sara and Gross, Fridolin and Jaulin, Fanny and Knight, Rob and Laconi, Ezio and Larmonier, Nicolas and Maley, Carlo and Mantovani, Alberto and Moreau, Violaine and Nassoy, Pierre and Rondeau, Elena and Santamaria, David and Sawai, Catherine M. and Seluanov, Andrei and Sepich‐Poore, Gregory D. and Sisirak, Vanja and Solary, Eric and Yvonnet, Sarah and Laplane, Lucie (2023) Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research. Biological Reviews. ISSN 1464-7931

Raerinne, Jani and Baedke, Jan (2015) Exclusions, Explanations, and Exceptions: On the Causal and Lawlike Status of the Competitive Exclusion Principle. Philosophy and Theory in Biology, 7. ISSN 1949-0739

Ronai, Isobel and Greslehner, Gregor P. and Boem, Federico and Carlisle, Judith and Stencel, Adrian and Suárez, Javier and Bayir, Saliha and Bretting, Wiebke and Formosinho, Joana and Guerrero, Anna C. and Morgan, William H. and Prigot-Maurice, Cybèle and Rodeck, Salome and Vasse, Marie and Wallis, Jacqueline M. and Zacks, Oryan (2020) "Microbiota, symbiosis and individuality summer school" meeting report. Microbiome, 8. p. 117.

Scholl, Raphael and Räz, Tim (2013) Modeling causal structures: Volterra's struggle and Darwin's success. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 3 (1). pp. 115-132. ISSN 1879-4912

Schwenkenbecker, Anne and Hewitt, Chad and Heesen, Remco and Campbell, Marnie and Fritsch, Oliver and Knight, Andrew and Nash, Erin (2023) Epistemology of ignorance: the contribution of philosophy to the science-policy interface of marine biosecurity. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. pp. 1-5. ISSN 2296-7745

Suárez, Javier (2016) Bacterial species pluralism in the light of medicine and endosymbiosis. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31 (1). pp. 91-105. ISSN 0495-4548

Suárez, Javier (2018) The importance of symbiosis in philosophy of biology: an analysis of the current debate on biological individuality and its historical roots. Symbiosis, 76 (2). pp. 77-96.

Suárez, Javier (2020) The stability of traits conception of the hologenome: An evolutionary account of holobiont individuality. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42 (11).

Suárez, Javier and Stencel, Adrian (2020) A part‐dependent account of biological individuality: why holobionts are individuals and ecosystems simultaneously. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 95. pp. 1308-1324.

Suárez, Javier and Triviño, Vanessa (2019) A metaphysical approach to holobiont individuality: Holobionts as emergent individuals. Quaderns de Filosofia, 6 (1). pp. 59-76.

Tauber, Alfred I. (2016) Immunity in Context: Science and Society in Dialogue. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31 (2). pp. 207-224. ISSN 2171-679X

Trappes, Rose (2024) Data Synthesis for Big Questions: From Animal Tracks to Ecological Models. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 16 (1). p. 4. ISSN 2475-3025

Trappes, Rose (2021) Defining the Niche for Niche Construction: Evolutionary and Ecological Niches. Biology & Philosophy, 36 (3). p. 31. ISSN 1572-8404

Trappes, Rose (2023) How Tracking Technology is Transforming Animal Ecology: Epistemic Values, Interdisciplinarity, and Technology-Driven Scientific Change. Synthese, 201. p. 128. ISSN 1573-0964

Trappes, Rose (2022) Individual Differences, Uniqueness, and Individuality in Behavioural Ecology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 96. pp. 18-26. ISSN 00393681

Trappes, Rose (2024) The easy difference: Sex in behavioural ecology. Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy. pp. 98-105.

Watkins, Aja and Ohnesorge, Miguel (2023) Naomi Oreskes, Science on a Mission. BJPS Review of Books.

Weber, Marcel (1999) The Aim and Structure of Ecological Theory. Philosophy of Science, 66. pp. 71-93. ISSN 1539-767X

Zhang, Mingjun (2020) The use and limitations of null-model-based hypothesis testing. Biology & Philosophy, 35 (2). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0169-3867

Open Access Book

Millstein, Roberta L. (2024) The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. ISBN 9780226834481

Other

Brown, Harvey R. The theory of the rise of sap in trees: some historical and conceptual remarks. Springer, Basel.