Spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem processes

Key Topics in Landscape Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 62-77

  Turner, Monica G ^a   Cardille, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511618581.005     Document Type: Chapter

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