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- W3100292680 abstract "My long-term research, which has focused on major ecological mysteries and questions, has provided many unexpected insights into the processes, mechanisms, and feedbacks that determine the structure and functioning of the grassland ecosystems. Many of these insights have emerged from exploring these questions with a combination of well-replicated field experiments, long-term observations, and predictions of theory. A major source of research creativity has been my instinct to pay the deepest attention to any rigorous results that fall outside the realm of current paradigms, concepts, or theoretical predictions, including the predictions of my own theories. I refer to this as “listening to nature” and letting data be “trump.” It is when current ideas fail and “things fall apart” that new hypotheses are generated that are so crucial for the advancement of science. My teaching builds on this approach: trying to have each lecture explore a mystery or paradox, including those with which I am currently grappling, and challenging my students to propose solutions. Perhaps because they are not saturated with the current paradigms of ecology, students and members of the public frequently respond to ecological mysteries with great creativity. I believe that the amazing privilege of having public support for my research obliges me to communicate my findings of relevance to society through public talks, testimony to legislative committees, interviews with the media, and discussion with business leaders. In 1981, when we were writing the initial Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) proposal, I was a 32-year-old, 6-year-post-PhD associate professor at the University of Minnesota. I had spent most of my career doing mathematical theory and laboratory studies of resource competition between freshwater algae. I had started doing nutrient-addition field experiments in the Cedar Creek grasslands only 3 years earlier and had just finished writing a book on resource competition (Tilman 1982). Hutchinson’s (1961) “paradox of the plankton”—the search for the forces and processes that allowed so many competing species to coexist with each other, whether algae in lakes, herbaceous species in grasslands, or trees in tropical forests—was intriguing." @default.
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- W3100292680 title "Listening to Nature and Letting Data Be “Trump”" @default.
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