A Classification of Ecological Boundaries
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 53 (8) , 723-729
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0723:acoeb]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Ecologists use the term boundary to refer to a wide range of real and conceptual structures. Because imprecise terminology may impede the search forKeywords
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