Geoscience: Natural complexity

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5874, 2008, Pages 323-324

  Watkins, Nicholas W ^a   Freeman, Mervyn P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EARTH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEX SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEEDING; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICS; MODEL; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 42349092872     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151611     Document Type: Short Survey

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