Fifty years to prove Malthus right

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4161-4162

  Kaack, Lynn H ^a,b   Katul, Gabriel G ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84875016789     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301246110     Document Type: Note

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