Ecosystem evolution: Major stages and possible mechanisms

Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 386-388

  Lekevicius E ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

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