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Transfer and Extension of Forest Landscape Ecology: A Matter of Models and Scale

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Perera, A.H., King, A.W. (2006). Transfer and Extension of Forest Landscape Ecology: A Matter of Models and Scale. In: Perera, A.H., Buse, L.J., Crow, T.R. (eds) Forest Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34280-1_2

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