Components of design in ecological field experiments

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-111

  Underwood, Antony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650705698     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0203     Document Type: Article

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