Core network compartments: Relative importance of ecosystems players in moving energy through the system

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 285-292

  Scharler, Ursula M ^a   Fath, Brian D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ascendency; Community modules; Ecological network analysis; Estuarine ecosystems; Flow diversity; Species identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894161488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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