I examine three “anti-object” metaphysical views: nihilism—there are no objects at all—generalism—reality is ultimately qualitative, and anti-quantificationalism—quantification over objects does not perspicuously represent the world. After setting aside nihilism, I argue that generalists should be anti-quantificationalists. Along the way I attempt to articulate what a “metaphysically perspicuou...

We study the evolution of resource utilization in a structured discrete time metapopulation model with an infinite number of patches, prone to local catastrophes that wipe out the entire local population but leave the patch itself habitable. We assume that there are two distinct resources in each patch and the strategy of an individual is the degree of specialization on the usage of these resou...

The impact of global change on biodiversity is commonly assessed in terms changes species distributions, community richness and composition. Whether how much associations between are also changing less documented. In this study, we quantify large-scale patterns bird communities relation to We use network approaches build three community-aggregated indices reflecting complementary aspects associ...

In the past decades, it has been debated whether ecological niche should be conserved among closely related species (phylogenetic niche conservatism, PNC) or largely divergent (traditional ecological niche theory and ecological speciation) and whether niche specialist and generalist might remain in equilibrium or niche generalist could not appear. In this study, we employed morphological traits...

Entry in new technological domains is essential for the long-term performance of firms. Therefore, it important to understand conditions that increase likelihood firms enter, and further explore, domains. Some recent studies have started unpack these issues by looking at environmental a domain pull into it. In this paper, we complement firm's current push We do from perspective ecology, how div...