Are the spatial patterns of weeds scale-invariant?

Oikos

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-264

  Cousens, Roger ^a   Wallinga, Jacco ^b   Shaw, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DENSITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEED; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 5144232874     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13188.x     Document Type: Article

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