Ecosystems emerging: 1. Conservation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 221-284

  Patten, Bernard C ^a,c   Straškraba, Milan ^b   Jørgensen, Sven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conservation; Cosmology; Ecosphere; Energy; Information; Matter; State space

Indexed keywords

ECOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY; ENERGY; MATTER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030619534     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)00069-5     Document Type: Article

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