Cross-scale interactions and changing pattern-process relationships: Consequences for system dynamics

Ecosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 790-796

  Peters, Debra P C ^a   Bestelmeyer, Brandon T ^a   Turner, Monica G ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological surprises; Landscape ecology; Propagating events; Spatial heterogeneity; Transfer processes

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34648837730     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9055-6     Document Type: Article

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