Ecosystem Organization: Mutualism and Cybernetics or Plain Darwinian Struggle for Existence?

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1988-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Philosophy, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/284799
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