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more focus on biology #1

Closed mattocci27 closed 1 year ago

mattocci27 commented 5 years ago

JL: Throughout the paper, we should try to use language that is more about biology, and less about statistics. The statistics are just a tool. But we should try to talk about the biological concepts in a clear and simple way, without referring to statistics more than necessary.

https://github.com/mattocci27/LMAms/blob/36d969c5cebb0416355d8f84618ddf63301094b9/ms/LMAps_main_re.rmd#L67

JL: I think we need to revise this. We need clear biological messages that are not so focused on “area-proportionality” and “mass-proportionality”. Most readers will not be interested in these concepts. These concepts are like statistical methods. They serve a methodological purpose, but we should try to find a different way to express our main results.

mattocci27 commented 5 years ago

"Our results suggest that leaf trait variation is multi-dimensional and is not well-represented by the one-dimensional leaf economics spectrum."

We need more language like this in the Abstract, and throughout the paper.