Resilience, robustness, and marine ecosystem-based management

BioScience

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Levin, Simon A ^a,b   Lubchenco, Jane ^a,c  

^a Department of Biology ^*

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Ecosystem management; Resilience; Robustness; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749126736     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B580107     Document Type: Review

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