Integrating the social into the ecological: Organisational and research group challenges

Collaboration in the New Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-109

  Parker, John N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

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