The ecological concept of disturbance and its expression at various hierarchical levels

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  1989-02-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/3565258
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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