<p>Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural ecosystems and the simplicity of any example derived from Newtonian physics. Though ecologists have long been i
Self-organization in complex ecosystems
β Scribed by Ricard V. SolΓ©, Jordi Bascompte
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 391
- Series
- Monographs in population biology (MPB-42)
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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