Open questions: Are the dynamics of ecological communities predictable?

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Godfray, H Charles J ^a   May, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84897943937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-22     Document Type: Note

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