What ecosystems really are-Physicochemical or biological entities?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 178-182

  Schizas, Dimitrios ^a   Stamou, George ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environ analysis; Holism; Network theory; Reductionism; Systems Ecology

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELS; SYSTEMS ECOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING;

EID: 34548453938     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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