Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services, and ecological resilience: Towards an integrative framework for improved management

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-96

  Truchy, Amélie ^a   Angeler, David G ^a   Sponseller, Ryan A ^b   Johnson, Richard K ^a   McKie, Brendan G ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84964920958     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.09.004     Document Type: Chapter

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