Is bad mathematics useless?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 468-470

  Nieminen, Jouni K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Nonsmooth models; Population dynamics; Resource based models

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149125850     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.01.022     Document Type: Letter

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