Ecological implications of a latitudinal gradient in inter-annual climatic variability: A test using fractal and chaos theories

Ecography

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 382-392

  Ferguson, Steven H ^a   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS; CLIMATIC VARIATION; FRACTAL; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT;

EID: 0030304926     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1996.tb00249.x     Document Type: Article

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