What research should be done and why? Four competing visions among ecologists

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 462-469

  Neff, Mark W ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMITING FACTOR; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80053465545     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/100035     Document Type: Article

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