An interdisciplinary and synthetic approach to ecological boundaries

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 717-722

  Cadenasso, Mary L ^a   Pickett, Steward T A ^a   Weathers, Kathleen C ^a   Bell, Susan S ^b   Benning, Tracy L ^c   Carreiro, Margaret M ^d   Dawson, Todd E ^e  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary; Definition; Framework; Scale; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042154222     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0717:AIASAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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