When similar ecological patterns in time emerge from different initial conditions: equifinality in the breeding performance of animal populations

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-68

  Penteriani, Vincenzo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal populations; Ecological pattern formation in time; Equifinality; Fecundity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 37449022892     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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