An ecological framework linking scales across space and time based on self-thinning

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-128

  Barnes, Belinda ^a   Roderick, Michael L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometrics; Carbon accounting; Dynamical modeling; Patch dynamics; Population dynamics; Scaling; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CARBON BUDGET; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SELF THINNING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NOMENCLATURE;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, GENETIC; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 4143145527     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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