A primer on natural resource science

Preface

Acknowledgments

Perspectives

Chapter 1. The Nature of Science

Chapter 2. Hypotheses

Chapter 3. Induction, Deduction, and Retroduction

Chapter 4. The Nature of Facts

Chapter 5. Being Humans

Chapter 6. Creativity

Chapter 7. Critical Thinking

Practice

Chapter 8. Observational versus Experimental Science

Chapter 9. Mathematics

Chapter 10. Statistics

Chapter 11. Model Selection

Chapter 12. Interpreting Single-Variable Models

Chapter 13. Interpreting Multivariable Models

Chapter 14. Means, Ends, and Shoulds

Chapter 15. Publishing

Epilogue

Literature Cited

Index