title: A response to Jepsen et al. (2016).
abstract: Important findings, e.g. in ecology, should be questioned and debated. Our findings that defoliating looper outbreaks travel as waves across Europe and the response here to such a questioning could be a start of a debate (photo: winter moth carterpillar).
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Olle
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tenow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009036:Moths / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: compartmentalized data; critical evaluation; methodology; refutation of critique; travelling waves