Ecology for a Crowded Planet

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5675, 2004, Pages 1251-1252

  Palmer, Margaret ^a   Bernhardt, Emily ^b   Chornesky, Elizabeth ^c   Collins, Scott ^d   Dobson, Andrew ^e   Duke, Clifford ^f   Gold, Barry ^g   Jacobson, Robert ^h   Kingsland, Sharon ⁱ   Kranz, Rhonda ^f   Mappin, Michael ^j   Martinez, M Luisa ^k   Micheli, Fiorenza ^l   Morse, Jennifer ^a   Pace, Michael ^m   Pascual, Mercedes ⁿ   Palumbi, Stephen ^l   Reichman, O J ^o   Simons, Ashley ^p   Townsend, Alan ^q   Turner, Monica ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Ecological Society of America   (United States)

^g The David and Lucile Packard Foundation   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^k INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p University of Colorado ^*  (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL; FRESH WATER;

ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH;

ASTRONOMY; COMBUSTION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CROWDING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; FRESH WATER; HEALTH; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; URBANIZATION;

EID: 2542587997     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095780     Document Type: Short Survey

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