Ecosystem Structure and Function along Urban‐Rural Gradients: An Unexploited Opportunity for Ecology

1990/08/01 by M. J. McDonnell, Mark J. McDonnell, Steward T. A. Pickett +1 · 1,203 citations
Environmental Science · #Biology #Citation #Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics #Computer science #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem #Evolutionary biology #Function (biology) #Geography #Land Use and Ecosystem Services #Sociology #World Wide Web

paper · doi:10.2307/1938259

published in Ecology 71(4), 1232-1237 (Wiley)

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