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I still think that trait-based ecology needs population ecology | Dynamic Ecology

Eight years ago, I confessed--to my own embarrassment--that I was just not that into trait-based ecology, and tried to articulate why not. It came down to my sense that trait-based ecology had, up to that point, mostly tried (consciously?) to bypass population ecology. Trait-based ecology seemed to me like an attempt to go straight from…