• DOI:10.1007/s100219900025
Corpus ID: 33559404

Evaluating Alternative Explanations in Ecosystem Experiments

@article{Carpenter1998EvaluatingAE,
  title={Evaluating Alternative Explanations in Ecosystem Experiments},
  author={S. Carpenter and J. Cole and T. Essington and J. Hodgson and Jeffrey N. Houser and J. Kitchell and M. Pace},
  journal={Ecosystems},
  year={1998},
  volume={1},
  pages={335-344}
}

• S. Carpenter, J. Cole, +4 authors M. Pace
• Published 1998
• Environmental Science
• Ecosystems

ABSTRACT Unreplicated ecosystem experiments can be analyzed by diverse statistical methods. Most of these methods focus on the null hypothesis that there is no response of a given ecosystem to a manipulation. We suggest that it is often more productive to compare diverse alternative explanations (models) for the observations. An example is presented using whole-lake experiments. When a single experimental lake was examined, we could not detect effects of phosphorus (P) input rate, dissolved… Expand

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