Ecological understanding: The nature of theory and the theory of nature

Ecological Understanding: The Nature of Theory and the Theory of Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-233

  Pickett, Steward T A ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^a   Jones, Clive G ^a  

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