Fuzzy indices of ecological conditions: Review of techniques and applications

Fuzzy Logic: Theory, Programming and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-172

  Marchini, Agnese ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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