The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  2010-04-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1600-0706.2009.18284.X
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