Landscape allometry and prediction in estuarine ecology: Linking landform scaling to ecological patterns and processes

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 895-900

  Hood, W Gregory ^a  

^a Skagit River System Cooperative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOMETRY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LANDFORM; LANDSCAPE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38349078701     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841343     Document Type: Review

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