Transients: The key to long-term ecological understanding?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-45

  Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 0347062671     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2003.09.007     Document Type: Review

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