Testing notions of global ecology
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It's clear that one thing that would boost scientific input to the issue of biodiversity would be evidence that researchers can model effectively the large-scale behaviour of ecosystems. A new issue of a prestigious journal aims to explore just that. Nigel Williams reports.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002