Historical and emerging practices in ecological topology

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 160-171

  Prager, Steven D ^a   Reiners, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Ecological frontier; Ecology; Networks; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349094001     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.11.001     Document Type: Review

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