Dynamics of plant communities in drylands: A pattern formation approach

Complex Population Dynamics: Nonlinear Modeling In Ecology, Epidemiology And Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-75

  Meron, Ehud ^a   Gilad, Erez ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 85053946409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812771582_0003     Document Type: Chapter

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