The Extent of Novel Ecosystems: Long in Time and Broad in Space

Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 66-80

  Perring, Michael P ^a   Ellis, Erle C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere; Marine novel ecosystems; Novel ecosystems; Spatially explicit historical models; Terrestrial novel ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884532061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118354186.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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