Detecting process from snapshot pattern: Lessons from tree spacing in the southern Kalahari

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Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 451-466

  Jeltsch, Florian ^a   Moloney, Kirk ^b   Milton, Suzanne J ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

AFRICA; KALAHARI;

POACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0033036160     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546695     Document Type: Article

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