How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and Statistics

How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and Statistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-467

  Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA HANDLING; WORD PROCESSING;

PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84875374198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119991595     Document Type: Book

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