Between control and complexity: opportunities and challenges for marine mesocosms

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 389-396

  Sagarin, Raphael D ^a   Adams, John ^a   Blanchette, Carol A ^b   Brusca, Richard C ^c   Chorover, Jon ^a   Cole, Julia E ^c   Micheli, Fiorenza ^d   Munguia Vega, Adrian ^e   Rochman, Chelsea M ^f   Bonine, Kevin ^a,c   van Haren, Joost ^a   Troch, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of California–Davis ^*  (Mexico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXITY; FUTURE PROSPECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOCOSM; RESEARCH WORK; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84986570049     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1313     Document Type: Article

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