Tropical forests as complex adaptive systems

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 35-59

  Chazdon, Robin L ^a   Arroyo, Juan Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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