Scaling terrestrial biogeochemical processes contrasting intact and model experimental systems

Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 109-130

  Bradford, Mark A ^a   Reynolds, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4663-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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