Talk:Daniel Simberloff

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Objectivity

This is a strange article. It sounds self-promoting, almost as if it was written by Simberloff himself, yet I cannot imagine anyone truly writing about themselves in this way. This article is so flawed that it might be better to start over and do a complete re-write. Why is there a list of his personal favorite projects? Did he really invent island biogeography, as the article claims? Is he really THE ecologist who championed the null model? This article completely inflates his involvement in numerous key developments in ecology, or at the very least, neglects to give credit where credit is due. I really hope Simberloff didn't write this himself because that would be downright embarrassing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.41.57 (talk) 15:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that this article probably was written by an undergraduate fanboy. That said, the man has fanboys for a reason. Simberloff is definitely one (and you are correct: like all scientific developments, they are collaborative products of many minds working collectively on a problem) of the early theorists exploring and testing hypotheses of island biogeography. I'll try to dig up some of the papers for citation later; they are considered foundational classics within the field (totally the kind of experiment you couldn't perform today for ethical and environmental reasons - you can't just kill everything on a mangrove island or small key to see what recolonizes later). I'm surprised that they aren't mentioned in the list of "selected publications" which seems strangely biased towards his recent work. Aderksen (talk) 17:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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University of Tennessee’s Institute for Biological Invasions

Does this institute exist? 2601:142:1:23A0:38B4:63CC:6D05:4EFC (talk) 21:33, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No. Nosteponsneke (talk) 17:28, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tidying Up

A feature suggested this page for me to look at, so here I am. Much of the early life is irrelevant and deals with common interests, and not sourced. I’ll try to trim it down to what’s been linked Nosteponsneke (talk) 17:10, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]