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Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Bissonette, John ^a   Storch, Ilse ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance metrics; Fragmentation; Pulsed resources; Spatial dynamics; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879969258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00543-0702r05     Document Type: Letter

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