The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (Mpb-28)The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model based, if not model driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different