The Ecosystem in Practice: Interest and Problems of an Old Definition for Constructing Ecological Models

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  2011

• Venue

  Ecosystems

• Publication date

  2011-09-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10021-011-9466-2
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