Establishing specifications for ecological indicators for the prediction of sustainability

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 247-258

  Landis, Wayne G ^a   McLaughlin, John F ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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