Food web complexity enhances community stability and climate regulation in a geophysiological model

Stephan P. Harding

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v51i4.16489

Food web complexity enhances community stability and climate regulation in a geophysiological model

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 51 (1999): Issue 4

By: Stephan P. Harding

Open Access

|Jan 1999

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