Ecosystems, organisms, and machines

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1069-1074

  Keller, Evelyn Fox ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Machine; Organism; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844458938     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[1069:EOAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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