Cross-scale interactions: Quantifying multi-scaled cause-effect relationships in macrosystems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-73

  Soranno, Patricia A ^a   Cheruvelil, Kendra S ^a   Bissell, Edward G ^a   Bremigan, Mary T ^a   Downing, John A ^b   Fergus, Carol E ^a   Filstrup, Christopher T ^b   Henry, Emily N ^a,c   Lottig, Noah R ^d   Stanley, Emily H ^d   Stow, Craig A ^e   Tan, Pang Ning ^f   Wagner, Tyler ^g   Webster, Katherine E ^h  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Michigan State University   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE WATER; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROECOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS;

EID: 84894275915     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120366     Document Type: Article

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