The fundamentals of vegetation change - Complexity rules

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-14

  Anand, M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems theory; Ecology; Fluid flow; Metaphor; Model; Paleoecology; Phase transitions; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034031403     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002630726523     Document Type: Article

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