The mechanistic models that describe these plots work under the assumption that rank abundance plots are based on a rigorous estimate of the abundances of individuals within species and that these measures represent the actual species abundance distribution.
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A full mechanistic model of the nicotinic receptor from striated muscle ( or electric organ ) was to be provided much later, when Changeux collaborated with Stuart Edelstein, another specialist of allostery, who worked decades on hemoglobin.
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Quantitative ecology, which mainly focuses on statistical and computational methods for addressing applied problems, is distinct from theoretical ecology which tends to explore focus on understanding the dynamics of simple mechanistic models and their implications for a general set of biological systems using mathematical arguments.
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Isn't it just the case that more density means more electrons, and therefore more chance of our photon colliding with one on its way from the source to the detector ? ( assuming that it is only photon-electron collisions that are significant-I've no idea if this is correct ) Admittedly, this is based on a naive mechanistic model of such things as photons, electrons, and physicists, rather than the probabilistic'reality'we've constructed in an attempt to explain things better.
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In another article from the same period, " On the Metaphysics and Movement of Universal Fitting ", Bohm identifies some of the inadequacies of the mechanistic model, particularly the inability to predict the future movement of complex wholes from the initial conditions, and suggests instead a focus on a general laws of interaction governing the relationship of the parts within a whole : " What we are doing in this essay is to consider what it means to turn this prevailing metaphysics of science upside down by exploring the notion that a kind of art a movement of fitting together is what is universal, both in nature and in human activities " ( 90 ).
