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On the obvious positive interspecific relationship between abundance and distribution: a reply to Blackburn and Gaston

Jussi PäivinenAtte KomonenJanne S. Kotiaho

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Scientific enterpriseCommunity EcologyAbundance (ecology)business.industryDistribution (economics)Normal scienceInterspecific competitionBiologyGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesbusinessAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Genealogy

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Thomas Kuhn described normal science as ‘ … research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements … ’, that ‘ … does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none’ ([Kuhn 1996][1]). Kuhn divides scientific enterprise into three faces: normal

10.1098/rsbl.2009.0682https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2828014/