Measuring ecological complexity

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1069-1076

  Parrott, Lael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Ecological complexity; Ecological orientors; Entropy

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL DATA; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; ECOLOGICAL ORIENTORS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOINDICATOR; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENTROPY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957878036     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.03.014     Document Type: Review

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