Authorship in ecology: Attribution, accountability, and responsibility

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 435-441

  Weltzin, Jake F ^a   Belote, R Travis ^b   Williams, Leigh T ^a   Keller, Jason K ^c   Engel, E Cayenne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 33749479518     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[435:AIEAAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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