Complexity, system integration, and susceptibility to change: Biodiversity connection

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 431-442

  Kolasa, Jurek ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complexity; Ecological hierarchy; Integration; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744470938     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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