Focused assessment of scale-dependent vegetation pattern

Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology: Concepts and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 111-138

  Lookingbill, Todd R ^a   Rocca, Monique E ^b   Urban, Dean L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84878662332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7390-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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