CASE: Complex adaptive systems ecology

Advances in Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-79

  Molin, Jan ^a   Molin, Søren ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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