Qualitative dynamics of the coffee rust epidemic: Educating intuition with theoretical ecology

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 210-218

  Vandermeer, John ^a,b   Jackson, Doug ^a   Perfecto, Ivette ^b  

^a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture production; agroecosystems; applied ecology; biocomplexity; ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899009723     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bit034     Document Type: Article

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