title: What hypotheses are you willing to entertain?
abstract: The 2005 American Society of Naturalists Vice-Presidential Symposium was organized on the theme of "Integrating across Scientific Disciplines." Integration implies considering some aspect of nature from disparate vantages that cut across disciplinary boundaries. The articles presented here illustrate that taking integrative approaches to addressing research questions yields much greater insights than do piecemeal contributions by separate fields.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. mark.mcpeek@dartmouth.edu
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McPeek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication