University of Groningen
The spatial and community-context of ecological specialisation
Bisschop, Karen
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10.33612/diss.119803987
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Propositions accompanying this thesis The spatial and community-context of ecological
specialisation By Karen Bisschop
1. Dispersal can be a virtue or pure evil (chapters 1 and 4) 2. Adaptation is not always in the best interest of a species
(chapter 2)
3. Ghosts do not only exist in fairy-tales, but leave real and lasting footprints in nature (chapter 3)
4. Microbiomes are crucial in adaptive evolution (chapter 5)
5. Microbiomes complexify (chapter 6)
6. It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance (Charles Darwin)
7. To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts (Robert MacArthur)
8. Many important questions will be accessible to patient observers who do not fear long-term experiments (Emile Maupas)
9. When we try to pick up anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe (John Muir) 10. The most exciting phrase in science is not 'Eureka!' but
