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- Title
Response to Young and Wolf: goal attainment in urban ecology research.
- Authors
Dooling, Sarah; Graybill, Jessica; Greve, Adrienne
- Abstract
Our critique focuses on the poorly defined key concepts, methodological inconsistencies, circular research design, and over-reaching substantive claims made by Young and Wolf. We suggest that Young and Wolf have provided an assessment of the Urban Ecosystems journal, not of urban ecology as a field. We conclude by identifying questions to guide a bibliometric analysis that focuses on a collaborative and interdisciplinary future of urban ecology (how are participating disciplines contributing to urban ecological research and scholarship; what theories and conceptual frameworks are being used, and how are these theories being tested and modified; and what mixed methodologies are being developed to collect data to address complex urban issues that are inherently interdisciplinary). We take seriously Young and Wolf's call for a "fundamental discussion as to if and how the intentions of the field have been or need to be updated" and argue that such a discussion requires a more inclusive, rigorous, and meaningful identification of the "core" of urban ecology literature than provided.
- Subjects
URBAN ecology; BIOTIC communities; BIBLIOMETRICS; SOCIAL ecology; POPULATION biology; RESEARCH
- Publication
Urban Ecosystems, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 3, p339
- ISSN
1083-8155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11252-007-0024-9