Conceptualising ecology to support more theory-driven research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
• ³ Mixed Research Unit (UMR 5558) "Biometry & Evolutionary Biology", University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
• ⁴ School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁶ British Ecological Society, London, UK.