Are There General Laws in Ecology?

1999/02/01 by John H. Lawton · 33 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Plant and animal studies

paper · doi:10.2307/3546712

Abstract

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