Last and corresponding authorship practices in ecology

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2017, Pages 8876-8887

  Duffy, Meghan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

authorship; contribution statements; corresponding author; last author

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030258250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3435     Document Type: Article

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