Can ecosystem properties be optimized by natural selection?

Senckenbergiana Maritima

Volumn 27, Issue 3-6, 1996, Pages 145-150

  Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

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