Symposium introduction: The importance of scale in ecology

Austral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  MacNally, R ^a   Quinn, G P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological theory; Experiment; Extent; Grain; Measurement; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444424308     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00701.x     Document Type: Article

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