The scale transition: Scaling up population dynamics with field data

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1478-1488

  Melbourne, Brett A ^a   Chesson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Nonlinear dynamics; Scale; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER; NONLINEARITY; PERIPHYTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; UPSCALING;

EID: 33746004227     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1478:TSTSUP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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